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[–] [email protected] 18 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Man, I really want bcachefs to do well; it's so nice, and while I'm happy with btrfs, I would really like to be able to have more RAID options in it.

Years ago, I used to do the LVM + FS dance, but after a couple of incidents I discovered it's a kind of jenga tower that's difficult to rebuild of things go really caterwumpus. Since then, I avoid LVM and have been waiting for stable RAID5/6 support in btrfs, but have come to the conclusion that it may never arrive; it seems to be either not a priority, or impossible (or exceedingly difficulty), because the years creep by with no apparent progress and the RAID warning increasingly looks as if it's written in stone.

So bcachefs is really interesting to me. But I'm getting Hans Reiser vibes from Overstreet; what is it with filesystem developers and oversized egos?

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 month ago (1 children)

You do know Hans Reiser murdered his wife right?

It's very improbable that this guy will also murder someone despite being an asshole. You should probably get your vibes re-calibrated if it conflates murder with flame wars.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I do, and I was around before ReiserFS was released and watched his interactions on the LKML, and I stand by my statement: they have the same vibes over email.