Comment by koverstreet
17 hours ago
It really does.
But you might want to check out the bus factor on btrfs too; when a maintainer says "but we've saved Facebook billions and billions of dollars!", calls for the other filesystem maintainer to be ejected from the community, then quits to join Anthropic a month later - that's not a vote of confidence.
I'd be very happy if people could just stop bringing up drama and us factors. We put it behind us a year ago, but it seems not everyone got the memo.
Checking the bus factor:
Btrfs regulars:
- 1 from Meta
- 1 from Oracle
- 4 from SuSe
- 2 from WDC
bcachefs:
- Kent Overstreet
And Btrfs still does not have a RAID-5/6 that they themselves recommend for usage:
* https://btrfs.readthedocs.io/en/latest/btrfs-man5.html#man-b...
What have they been doing for the last decade(+)?
Other things: since no companies sponsoring its development had any interest in raid 5/6, which is mostly a home enthusiast thing.
Western Digital picked up this work last year and is slowly getting through the new design without the write hole, I think we'll see working raid 5/6 in the next year or two.
Might end in a new bcachefs fork beeing included back into mainline. If companies sponsor a few fulltime devs working on the new fork, we finally might have a stable enterprise ready CoW filesystem.