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.

  • NeoNachtwaechter@lemmy.world
    5·
    4 months ago

    two files in the same folder, one of them stored compressed on an array of HDDs in RAID10 and the other one stored on a different array […]

    Now that’s what I call serious over-engineering.

    Who in the world wants to use that?

    And does that developer maybe have some spare time? /s

    • Max-P@lemmy.max-p.me
      71·
      4 months ago

      Simple example: my Steam library could be RAID0 and unencrypted but my backups I definitely want to be RAID1 and compressed, and encrypted for security. The media library doesn’t need encryption but maybe want it in RAID1 because ripping movies takes forever. I may also want to have the games on NVMe when I play them, and stored on the HDDs when I’m not playing them, and my VMs on the SATA SSD array as a performance middleground.

    • apt_install_coffee@lemmy.ml
      6·
      4 months ago

      This is actually a feature that enterprise SAN solutions have had for a while, being able choose your level of redundancy & performance at a file level is extremely useful for minimising downtime and not replicating ephemeral data.

      Most filesystem features are not for the average user who has their data replicated in a cloud service; they’re for businesses where this flexibility saves a lot of money.

      • apt_install_coffee@lemmy.ml
        2·
        4 months ago

        I’ll also tac on that when you use cloud storage, what do you think your stuff is stored on at the end of the day? Sure as shit not Bcachefs yet, but it’s more likely than not on some netapp appliance for the same features that Bcachefs is developing.