Bcachefs Brings Self-Healing Work & Better Reflink Repair For Linux 6.13

[NotMine999]

Is bcachefs the best software ever written (after rustc of course)?

That's like saying decaf espresso is just as great as double-shot espresso.

[skeevy420]

I am with you about the nvidia, I have a Radeon Vega 64 these days, but some feels off with wayland for me.

Well, if you use KDE it's the text rendering. It has been a problem for me since Plasma 5. Characters don't stay on the same line, are rendered incorrectly, sometimes they're not rendered at all, and other general oddities. The below is from today on an up-to-date CachyOS Plasma (6.2.3/6.8).

[Errinwright]

... what? btrfs stopped being a meme years ago. It's the default filesystem on many (if not most) distros and provides the vast majority of the features that bcachefs is intending to support someday... except it supports them now. btrfs also has a much larger developer community around it than bcachefs does. bcachefs is much more "meme status" than btrfs and will be until it's finally "ready for usage" after 30 more years of development.

Stalin had a fair point revolving around quantity being a quality in an of itself, however, in this case BTRFS has barely managed to no longer be considered a meme. The time investment and corruption errors on the path up to this point does not invoke confidence in the FS. BcacheFS is already superior in many regards, and at the very least equivalent in the remainder.

[andresdju]

Admit that you posted just to promote the game of Go.

[pokeballs]

Well, if you use KDE it's the text rendering. It has been a problem for me since Plasma 5. Characters don't stay on the same line, are rendered incorrectly, sometimes they're not rendered at all, and other general oddities.

You need to lower font hinting.

[gotar]

... what? btrfs stopped being a meme years ago.

How is extent v2 development going? Is duplicate-aware defragmentation ready? No?

So - no reliable quota, huge space usage, not suitable for databases (including these in $HOME), no encryption (checksum-awareness in regard to RAID1+).
One cannot set data-profile nor compression-level per file/directory, cannot change superblock parameters per subvolume either.
Subvolume management is hell (try to swap one holding nested subvolumes).

Let's be honest - btrfs is niche filesystem suitable for mostly-static or rarely-changing data, like various archives (thanks to bit-rot protection) or VM images (including docker-like stacking or immutable OS-es).
It competes XFS where one needs more than reflinks themself (unfortunately not supported by ext4) and doesn't hold databases on it.

But in it's full potential - it's not general-purpose snapshotting FS.
I.e. it can be general-purpose if you don't keep snapshots, but then - what's the point of using it?

[skeevy420]

You need to lower font hinting.

I tried and it doesn't help, but thanks for the suggestion. I even logged off and back on between every change to hopefully be thorough. Turning off AA makes general rendering even worse and doesn't fix the odd shapes or wavyness either.

[skeevy420]

Admit that you posted just to promote the game of Go.

KSudoku is my boredom filler

[intelfx]

How is extent v2 development going?

It's going. Why is this even a counterargument to the "btrfs is not a meme" statement, how does absence of "extent v2" (assuming extent tree v2) makes btrfs "a meme"?

Is duplicate-aware defragmentation ready? No?

"Ready" implies it was a goal. It wasn't. In btrfs, advanced defragmentation and deduplication algorithms are supposed to be implemented in userspace.

So - no reliable quota

From which ass did you pull this?

huge space usage

ditto

not suitable for databases (including these in $HOME)

Wow, I guess all of my machines that I use on a daily basis are supposed to disappear in a puff of logic.

no encryption (checksum-awareness in regard to RAID1+)

What does this even mean?

One cannot set data-profile nor compression-level per file/directory, cannot change superblock parameters per subvolume either. Subvolume management is hell (try to swap one holding nested subvolumes).

This is the only statement in your comment which is actually true.

But in it's full potential - it's not general-purpose snapshotting FS.

It most definitely is.

[Daktyl198]

Yeah idk guys... all these people defending it with their lives but there's just something about a filesystem that's been in development for 9 years and still can't remove the "experimental" label and which no other experienced filesystem developers are willing to touch with a 100ft pole that just does not inspire confidence in me.

If this was a video game, it'd be up there with Star Citizen and AoC for meme status at this point. Sticking with the video game analogy... don't pre-order at all, let alone based on what the developer tells you will be in the game sometime in the future. Learn your lesson from the launch of No Mans Sky. Wait until full release and read reviews, if full release ever happens