Bcachefs Gets "Bad@$$" Snapshots, Still Aiming For Mainline Linux Kernel Integration

[acobar]

Awesome news!

I too, as soon as it get mainlined, will put it on a spare machine and will keep making binary packages and compare the results with what is produced on my trusted ext4 partitions.

[ALRBP]

I still have really big hopes for bcachefs.
I will probably switch my four 12tb mirrors as soon as it's mainlained.
Erasure coding sound promising. Hope he gets it stable.

I do have good backups and i am prepared to get burned though

The article says it would be marked experimental due to potential on disk format changes. You should definitely not use it in production until this phase is over.

[intelfx]

zfs is still better

zfs cult coming out of the woodwork

[flower]

it sounds like you are excited about being burned

Well kind of. It's the price you pay for early adopting new tech. And i love tech

[some_canuck]

zfs is still better

[pal666]

I do have good backups and i am prepared to get burned though

it sounds like you are excited about being burned

[flower]

I still have really big hopes for bcachefs.
I will probably switch my four 12tb mirrors as soon as it's mainlained.
Erasure coding sound promising. Hope he gets it stable.

I do have good backups and i am prepared to get burned though

[phoronix]

Phoronix: Bcachefs Gets "Bad@$$" Snapshots, Still Aiming For Mainline Linux Kernel Integration

Kent Overstreet who has been working relentlessly on Bcachefs for over a half-decade now issued his latest status update on this Linux file-system born out of the kernel's block cache code...

https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=Bcachefs-November-2021