There’s been some Friday night kernel drama on the Linux kernel mailing list… Linus Torvalds has expressed regrets for merging the Bcachefs file-system and an ensuing back-and-forth between the file-system maintainer.

  • ryannathans
    21·
    3 months ago

    Looks dead on arrival to me, so much complexity for “performance” but the filessystem is outclassed by everything else in existence. If there was any real performance from this complexity it could have cool niche use cases but this is very disappointing https://www.phoronix.com/review/bcachefs-linux-67/2

    • apt_install_coffee@lemmy.ml
      2·
      3 months ago

      Brand new anything will not show up with amazing performance, because the primary focus is correctness and features secondary.

      Premature optimisation could kill a project’s maintainability; wait a few years. Even then, despite Ken’s optimism I’m not certain we’ll see performance beating a good non-cow filesystem; XFS and EXT4 have been eeking out performance for many years.

      • ryannathans
        1·
        3 months ago

        Cow is an excuse for writing performance, though the read is awful too currently

        • apt_install_coffee@lemmy.ml
          1·
          3 months ago

          A rather overly simplistic view of filesystem design.

          More complex data structures are harder to optimise for pretty much all operations, but I’d suggest the overwhelmingly most important metric for performance is development time.

          • ryannathans
            1·
            3 months ago

            At the end of the day the performance of a performance oriented filesystem matters. Without performance, it’s just complexity

      • ryannathans
        11·
        3 months ago

        Improvement is nice to see, still not ready for prime time