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.
The lead developer certainly doesn’t. He maintains that it’s got several systems in production.
Oh, wow look at that. Last time I checked it was still ~“for testing purposes only, do not use in production”.
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.
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.
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.
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 😅
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.
Is this the same as BtrFS?
Confusingly, no, they are completely unrelated things, despite how similar the names look. (This confused me as well until somewhat recently.)
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.
