There’s been some Friday night kernel drama on the Linux kernel mailing list… Linus Torvalds has expressed regrets for merging the Bcachefs file-system and an ensuing back-and-forth between the file-system maintainer.

  • bastion@feddit.nl
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    2 months ago

    It’s a filesystem that supports all of these features (and in combination):

    • snapshotting
    • error correction
    • per-file or per-directory “transparently compress this”
    • per-file of per-directory “transparently back this up”

    If that is meaningless to you, that’s fine, but it sure as hell looks good to me. You can just stick with ext3 - it’s rock solid.