The author lost corporate funding recently and is asking for donations. I just started giving 20/mo. I don't care about kernel drama; I just want a good COW filesystem for Linux and this guy is doing a thankless service.<p><a href="https://www.patreon.com/join/bcachefs" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https://www.patreon.com/join/bcachefs</a><p>You can do a smaller pledge via the custom pledge button if you want.
And it has been accepted and merged into torvalds/linux, as of an ~hour ago.<p><a href="https://lore.kernel.org/all/169870980914.17163.3315949638870235214.pr-tracker-bot@kernel.org/" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https://lore.kernel.org/all/169870980914.17163.3315949638870...</a><p><a href="https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=9e87705289667a6c5185c619ea32f3d39314eb1b" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/lin...</a>
Seeing some of the mailing list threads about this gives me anxiety. If you thought your PR review process was painful, try reading through some of the nitpicks, useless feedback, and tangents Kent has fought through. You can find it on lore, I'm not going to link directly to anything specific.<p>As an outsider, there seems to be too many egos to placate when it comes to contributing to Linux.
My dream linux filesystem is still a lean Windows-compatible filesystem.<p>I have had the linux kernel ntfs driver corrupt data more than once, so I use it read only mode.<p>BTRFS is slow and unofficial on Windows, and its not that fast in linux to begin with.<p>F2FS would be perfect, and Samsung claimed they were building a Windows driver, but it never materialized.