@ljs interesting how some people forget that open source is about people, and working together and respectful is a must in a open source project. The only person that seems to not care about its users is Kent, who is doing everything he can to piss everybody, making it impossible for working with him and thus not merging fixes for his "perfect" filesystem.

@ljs The framing ("losing a feature") is especially bad. Bcachefs can always be distributed out of tree. Distros can always re-include it if they want (see also: secure boot). Linus isn't actually all-powerful, this is FOSS. If, on a "purely technical" basis, bcachefs is so superior, there are plenty of avenues for users to get it.

And for all the "context" the Reg provides about Ted & btrfs, they neglect to mention how the default Fedora install has used btrfs since v33! Not exactly unstable..

@ljs Wow, they read those emails, and THAT was their takeaway? I... I don't know what to say...

@ljs lol how embarrassing, they totally fell for the "technical argument" smokescreen. It's stupid to defend the technical points of Kent's replies in that thread, because the technical aspect was never the point.

And yet the "non-technical" aspects are just as important to Linux's technical excellence. I can't remember where I read that Linux's true innovation wasn't its design, but rather its development model, but it's true. Linux isn't defined by a single, great technical decision. Instead, it's great because it's constantly evolving through collaboration. Jeopardizing that is a much bigger deal than any single feature.

@ljs omg nobody tell that person we've also lost reiserfs over personality issues recently

@lkundrak @ljs just a domestic dispute

@pony @ljs not funny (but my toot was very funny)

@ljs @pony i'm also not sure where does the idea that bcachefs is going to be deleted come from

i'm not saying it's not going to happen, but i haven't seen linus or anybody relevant suggest that

did i miss something?

@lkundrak @ljs @pony here it's alleged that there's a talk about it for 6.18 https://lore.kernel.org/all/5ip2wzfo32zs7uznaunpqj2bjmz3log4yrrdezo5audputkbq5@uoqutt37wmvp/

@vbabka @ljs @pony disreputable source

@lkundrak @ljs @pony true, but enough for the register, apparently ;)

@lkundrak @ljs @pony oh ok, the article doesn't cite that mail, or even doesn't seem to say the fs is going to be removed, apart from the title itself suggesting that.

@vbabka @ljs @pony it makes up for the lack of journalistic integrity by randomly shitting on devicemapper tho