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Latest Bcachefs Code Draws Torvalds' Ire Over Late Feature Code
There is some tension on the Linux kernel mailing list with some late Bcachefs feature work sent in as part of 'fixes' for the ongoing Linux 6.16 kernel cycle
The new Bcachefs journal_rewind code allows the file-system to be reset to an earlier point in time and aims to serve as a disaster recovery tool. The tool isn't yet fully complete with some known "major caveats" but the hope being that it's a step-forward in case of Bcachefs file-system problems. In the past, I've had to rush entire new on disk format features in response to issues I saw starting to arise - I think more than once, but the btree bitmap in the member info section was the big one that sticks in my mind; that one was very hectic, but 100% proved its worth.
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