alt Hacker NewsWhy do people keep bringing up drama?
The community infighting has sucked, but that's a thing that matters primarily for maintainers.
I think most users just want something that works.
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throwaway85825 • yesterday at 8:39 PM
I don't care about the drama, I just want to say thank you for your continued work to advance the state of the art in open file systems.
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Skunkleton • yesterday at 7:57 PM
Related username?
To answer the original question, most people who care about their filesystem at all care about its stability. Not just "does it work now" but also "will it work and improve over time". Infighting puts the future at risk.
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drama matters because most users don't want to have their favourite FS randomly removed from the kernel unexpectedly after some OS update :)
That said I certainly hope that one day the technical advantage of bcachefs will be so overwhelming that maybe the decision to remove it will be overturned. And if big vendors make it their default FS the bus factor will disappear (even if unofficially you'd still be the sole maintainer, but no one cares about that in the enterprise world...)