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.

  • apt_install_coffee@lemmy.ml
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    4 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
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      4 months ago

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

      • apt_install_coffee@lemmy.ml
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        4 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
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          4 months ago

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