It was nowhere close to be mature enough to be in the kernel. The developer is nowhere close to be mature enough to be involved in the kernel. It’s better for everybody if it is developed separately and maybe integrated again at a later stage when the file system and tooling are considered stable and changes are smaller and less sensitive. CacheFS being in the kernel might mislead people to rely on a filesystem that is still experimental and under heavy development. Personally I am looking forward to see it mature because I’d love to run it on my file storage home server when it is stable enough.
No, comment is not true. You can use ZFS or BTFS, both of which are open source. ZFS just happens to be historically funded by Oracle, which is a good thing.
Yes I’m asking for the reason why you think this development is good. It seemed to me like it could have worked out if they talked it out and could have added something of value to the OS
There’s no reason to be rude and insulting. It doesn’t make the other person look lazy; it just makes you look bad, especially when you end up being wrong because you didn’t do any research either. The article is garbage. It’s obviously written by someone who wants to talk about why they don’t like bcachefs, which would be fine, but they make it look like that’s why Linus wanted to remove bcachefs, which is a blatant lie.
Despite this, it has become clear that BcacheFS is rather unstable, with frequent and extensive patches being submitted to the point where [Linus Torvalds] in August of last year pushed back against it, as well as expressing regret for merging BcacheFS into mainline Linux.
But if we click on the article’s own source in the quote we see the message (emphasis mine):
Yeah, no, enough is enough. The last pull was already big.
This is too big, it touches non-bcachefs stuff, and it’s not even
remotely some kind of regression.
At some point “fix something” just turns into development, and this is
that point.
Nobody sane uses bcachefs and expects it to be stable, so every single
user is an experimental site.
The bcachefs patches have become these kinds of "lots of development
during the release cycles rather than before it", to the point where
I’m starting to regret merging bcachefs.
If bcachefs can’t work sanely within the normal upstream kernel
release schedule, maybe it shouldn’t be in the normal upstream
kernel.
This is getting beyond ridiculous.
Stability has absolutely nothing to do with it. On the contrary, bcachefs is explicitly expected to be unstable. The entire thing is about the developer, Kent Overstreet, refusing to follow the linux development schedule and pushing features during a period where strictly bug fixes are allowed. This point is reiterated in the rest of the thread if anyone is having doubts about whether it is stated clearly enough in the above message alone.
It’s not lazy to ask someone who seems to know something about the topic within a discussion thread about said topic. You know more than I do on this.
I understand how you may not want to take the time to answer someone’s question but also you could have replied with the link you eventually did instead of saying “Seriously?” Within the context of calling others lazy you could also qualify under the same term since you took the time to respond but not with the answer.
With search being what it is nowadays I wouldn’t know if I am getting a good result to find out the answer since it is of a technical and specific nature I may or may not even know if I am familiar with to begin with. It could take me much longer to figure it out, or I will give up and not be interested in finding out more about a field you seem to have an interest and knowledge about and I am demonstrating I want to know more about.
I think it is fair to ask for more information from someone who shows more expertise in the topic before searching.
I’ve heard about this and wanted to hear your opinion on it because you seemed to have gotten to another conclusion than I have. But it seems that you’re not interested in discussing so I’m no longer interested
Good 👍
Why?
It was nowhere close to be mature enough to be in the kernel. The developer is nowhere close to be mature enough to be involved in the kernel. It’s better for everybody if it is developed separately and maybe integrated again at a later stage when the file system and tooling are considered stable and changes are smaller and less sensitive. CacheFS being in the kernel might mislead people to rely on a filesystem that is still experimental and under heavy development. Personally I am looking forward to see it mature because I’d love to run it on my file storage home server when it is stable enough.
They want you to use Oracle ZFS instead, they have a lot of money riding on this.
Seriously?
No, comment is not true. You can use ZFS or BTFS, both of which are open source. ZFS just happens to be historically funded by Oracle, which is a good thing.
The reason is bcachefs has major stability problems. https://hackaday.com/2025/06/10/the-ongoing-bcachefs-filesystem-stability-controversy/
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Not all of us know what this is. Can you expand on your thoughts?
Agreed!
I don’t know what this is but it is a topic I am somewhat familiar with and it is somehow significant enough to be a headline.
Curious minds would like to know more.
https://hackaday.com/2025/06/10/the-ongoing-bcachefs-filesystem-stability-controversy/
Thanks!
Yes I’m asking for the reason why you think this development is good. It seemed to me like it could have worked out if they talked it out and could have added something of value to the OS
Very easy to search, but you’re lazy so:https://hackaday.com/2025/06/10/the-ongoing-bcachefs-filesystem-stability-controversy/
There’s no reason to be rude and insulting. It doesn’t make the other person look lazy; it just makes you look bad, especially when you end up being wrong because you didn’t do any research either. The article is garbage. It’s obviously written by someone who wants to talk about why they don’t like bcachefs, which would be fine, but they make it look like that’s why Linus wanted to remove bcachefs, which is a blatant lie.
But if we click on the article’s own source in the quote we see the message (emphasis mine):
Stability has absolutely nothing to do with it. On the contrary, bcachefs is explicitly expected to be unstable. The entire thing is about the developer, Kent Overstreet, refusing to follow the linux development schedule and pushing features during a period where strictly bug fixes are allowed. This point is reiterated in the rest of the thread if anyone is having doubts about whether it is stated clearly enough in the above message alone.
Ohhhh nooooo 🙀
It’s not lazy to ask someone who seems to know something about the topic within a discussion thread about said topic. You know more than I do on this.
I understand how you may not want to take the time to answer someone’s question but also you could have replied with the link you eventually did instead of saying “Seriously?” Within the context of calling others lazy you could also qualify under the same term since you took the time to respond but not with the answer.
With search being what it is nowadays I wouldn’t know if I am getting a good result to find out the answer since it is of a technical and specific nature I may or may not even know if I am familiar with to begin with. It could take me much longer to figure it out, or I will give up and not be interested in finding out more about a field you seem to have an interest and knowledge about and I am demonstrating I want to know more about.
I think it is fair to ask for more information from someone who shows more expertise in the topic before searching.
It is
no u
I’ve heard about this and wanted to hear your opinion on it because you seemed to have gotten to another conclusion than I have. But it seems that you’re not interested in discussing so I’m no longer interested