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The Ongoing BcacheFS Filesystem Stability Controversy (hackaday.com)

submitted 1 day ago by cm0002@lemmy.world to c/linux@programming.dev

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[–] whaleross@lemmy.world 31 points 1 day ago (3 children)

Correct me if I'm wrong, but everybody considers bcachefs to still be in alpha.

Only a complete idiot would use an alpha stage filesystem in production and then whine about bugs and data corruption.

I think this post smells of clickbait.

[–] Colloidal@programming.dev 10 points 1 day ago (1 children)

The lead developer certainly doesn't. He maintains that it's got several systems in production.

[–] whaleross@lemmy.world 7 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Oh, wow look at that. Last time I checked it was still ~"for testing purposes only, do not use in production".

[–] Colloidal@programming.dev 12 points 1 day ago (1 children)

And that's Linus' doing, mostly. Kent insists it is production ready. I wouldn't touch it with a 10-foot pole, at least for now.

[–] whaleross@lemmy.world 5 points 1 day ago

Yep, me neither. I'm looking forward to see how it compares with zfs and btrfs when it is ready, but for now I wouldn't consider it for anything.

[–] Rekall_Incorporated@piefed.social 10 points 1 day ago (1 children)

BcacheFS seems to have been released around ~2019 and it's still alpha?

One thing you don't want to fuck around with is your file system. It's one area of computing where conservatism is paramount.

[–] Cris_Color@lemmy.world 8 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

I think a filesystem is the kind of thing I'd expect to stay in alpha or beta a really long time 😅 I'm not the most technical linux user thought so maybe that is a long time, I dunno

But like Wayland took ages to be usable. I wonder how long btrfs took to get out of unusable early stages...

Edit: I didn't see that the dev had said its production ready.... I don't really buy that lol 😅

[–] sxan@midwest.social 4 points 1 day ago

It is, a little. There's no information in the text, so if there is any it's in the embedded YouTube video, and I don't watch talking heads when the information could be an article.

[–] sem@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Is this the same as BtrFS?

[–] bitcrafter@programming.dev 9 points 1 day ago

Confusingly, no, they are completely unrelated things, despite how similar the names look. (This confused me as well until somewhat recently.)

[–] sxan@midwest.social 2 points 1 day ago

I want this to work so badly, and I thought inclusion into mainline was a positive development, but it's just been scary.

That prioritized storage targets feature looks so nice.