Bcachefs Hopes To Remove "EXPERIMENTAL" Flag In The Next Year

[phoronix]

Phoronix: Bcachefs Hopes To Remove "EXPERIMENTAL" Flag In The Next Year

Bcachefs lead developer Kent Overstreet has submitted all of the Bcachefs file-system feature patches for the Linux 6.12 kernel merge window. In his pull request he also lays out his ambitions to remove the "EXPERIMENTAL" flag from Bcachefs within the next year...

https://www.phoronix.com/news/Bcachefs-For-Linux-6.12

[bulletxt]

In order for a filesystem to declare itself stable, 10 years of deployment in enterprise production is needed, possibly in varied scenarios, and possibly also with the occurrence of sudden incidents, even serious ones

[avis]

Is this still a single person project?

The problem with such complicated filesystems is that they inevitably get dropped from the kernel tree once their maintainer stops working on them one way or another.

[varikonniemi]

Is this still a single person project?

The problem with such complicated filesystems is that they inevitably get dropped from the kernel tree once their maintainer stops working on them one way or another.

why don't you click the pull request link? There are 12 other developers besides Kent contributing to this release.

[flower]

In order for a filesystem to declare itself stable, 10 years of deployment in enterprise production is needed, possibly in varied scenarios, and possibly also with the occurrence of sudden incidents, even serious ones

tell me one filesystem in the linux kernel that had 10 years of deployment in enterprise production before they removed the experimental tag.

i still think it's a little bit early to remove it from bcachefs though. but your claim isnt realistic either

[hajj_3]

Is this still a single person project?

no, there are a few people: https://evilpiepirate.org/git/bcachefs.git/log/

[scottishduck]

I think it’s more likely to be kicked out the kernel within a year, personally.

[intelfx]

i still think it's a little bit early to remove it from bcachefs though

Good thing no one is saying anything to the contrary, then.

Kent wrote that he hoped to be able to do this within a year, not that he wanted to do it now (which no one disputes is early).

[intelfx]

Is this still a single person project?

The problem with such complicated filesystems is that they inevitably get dropped from the kernel tree once their maintainer stops working on them one way or another.

Name one "such complicated filesystem" that has got "inevitably" dropped from the kernel tree.

[CommunityMember]

Name one "such complicated filesystem" that has got "inevitably" dropped from the kernel tree.

ReiserFS?