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Kent Overstreet winning hearts and minds in the LKML again. (lkml.org)

submitted 5 days ago by ikidd@lemmy.world to c/linux@programming.dev

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It's becoming easy to see why Linus didn't merge anything from bcachefs for 6.17. And Kent isn't gaining himself any supporters by tearing down other filesystems in his tantrum.

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[–] yarr@feddit.nl 11 points 5 days ago

The problem is 100% Kent. Linus and the rest of the main contributors have a certain way they like to run and operate. Kent has again and again shown that he doesn't like working that way and keeps sneaking stuff into patchsets.

You can be a 500% genius, but if you're working as a team member (which anyone doing a sizeable contribution to the kernel is), then you have to learn how to play in the sandbox.

I can't see any possible future where BCacheFS stays in the kernel. Kent is starting a fight he cannot win. If he doesn't want to play nice, then his FS will have to be maintained as a kernel patch, which will forever be a limiting factor in its adoption. It's too bad he doesn't just swallow his pride and play by the rules.

btrfs is no perfect piece of software either, so it's good to know there are alternatives out there.