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Linus Torvalds Begins Expressing Regrets Merging Bcachefs


There's been some Friday night kernel drama on the Linux kernel mailing list..

But this "fixes" pull request touches more than one thousand lines of code and we're now more than half-way through the Linux 6.11 cycle. To which Kent responded and argued that "Bcachefs is _definitely_ more trustworthy than Btrfs", "I'm working to to make itmore robust and reliable than xfs and ext4 (and yes, it will be) with_end to end data integrity_," and other passionate commentary. There were several back-and-forth Friday night comments on the Linux kernel mailing list.

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