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.

  • dinckel@lemmy.world
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    2 months ago

    You really can’t go wrong with it, in the vast majority of cases.

    As much as I would love to say that i like btrfs, it’s not without issues. In the 3 years I’ve used it on my systems, I’ve already had one instance of corruption, and one more of complete data loss.

    Don’t have any experience at all with bcachefs, but this is the type of thing where it either works, or it just doesn’t, and no one wants it to be the latter

    • Riskable@programming.devEnglish
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      2 months ago

      You had corruption with btrfs? Was this with a spinning disk or an SSD?

      I’ve been using btrfs for over a decade on several filesystems/machines and I’ve had my share of problems (mostly due to ignorance) but I’ve never encountered corruption. Mostly I just run out of disk space because I forgot to balance or the disk itself had an issue and I lost whatever it was that was stored in those blocks.

      I’ve had to repair a btrfs partition before due to who-knows-what back when it was new but it’s been over a decade since I’ve had an issue like that. I remember btrfs check --repair being totally useless back then haha. My memory on that event is fuzzy but I think I fixed whatever it was bitching about by remounting the filesystem with an extra option that forced it to recreate a cache of some sort. It ran for many years after that until the disk spun itself into oblivion.