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Linux is a family of open source Unix-like operating systems based on the Linux kernel, an operating system kernel first released on September 17, 1991 by Linus Torvalds. Linux is typically packaged in a Linux distribution (or distro for short).

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Linus Torvalds Begins Expressing Regrets Merging Bcachefs (www.phoronix.com)

submitted 10 months ago by pnutzh4x0r@lemmy.ndlug.org to c/linux@lemmy.ml

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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.

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[–] taanegl@beehaw.org 23 points 10 months ago (2 children)

I'm going to switch from BTRFS at some point, but at this point that's going to be a few years down the line.

[–] stsquad@lemmy.ml 12 points 10 months ago (3 children)

Btrfs never really worked out for me (I think default COW doesn't play nice with VM images) and ext4 works great.

[–] Fisch@discuss.tchncs.de 10 points 10 months ago (1 children)

You can disable COW for specific files btw

[–] taanegl@beehaw.org 4 points 10 months ago

Ext4 is faster, but I love BTRFS not just because of CoW, but subvolumes as well. You could probably get something similar going with LVFS, but I prefer that to be baked in, hence why I'm waiting for bcachefs, because it'll up the ante with tighter integration, so that might translate to better performance.

Notice my use of the word might. BTRFS performance is not so great.

[–] Damage@feddit.it 3 points 10 months ago

Ext4 on personal computer and ZFS on my server

[–] chris@l.roofo.cc 4 points 10 months ago (1 children)

I'd consider btrfs if they finally make their raid5/6 implementation stable. I want to work with multiple disks without sacrificing half of my storage.

[–] possiblylinux127@lemmy.zip 0 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Btrfs shouldn't be used for raid 5/6

[–] soundconjurer@mstdn.social 1 points 10 months ago

@possiblylinux127 @chris Hence their statement "I’d consider btrfs if ...".