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The Ongoing BcacheFS Filesystem Stability Controversy (hackaday.com)

submitted 4 days ago by cm0002@lemmy.world to c/linux@programming.dev

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[–] whaleross@lemmy.world 31 points 4 days ago (3 children)

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.

[–] Colloidal@programming.dev 10 points 4 days ago (1 children)

The lead developer certainly doesn't. He maintains that it's got several systems in production.

[–] whaleross@lemmy.world 7 points 4 days ago (1 children)

Oh, wow look at that. Last time I checked it was still ~"for testing purposes only, do not use in production".

[–] Colloidal@programming.dev 12 points 4 days ago (1 children)

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.

[–] whaleross@lemmy.world 5 points 4 days ago

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.

[–] Rekall_Incorporated@piefed.social 10 points 4 days ago (1 children)

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.

[–] Cris_Color@lemmy.world 9 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

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 😅

[–] sxan@midwest.social 4 points 3 days ago

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.