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bombcar on July 4, 2025 | parent | context | favorite | on: Bcachefs may be headed out of the kernel

ZFS is good enough for 90% of people who need that so no real money is available for anything new.

Maybe a university could do it.

anonfordays on July 4, 2025 [–]

Indeed, and it's inclusion in Ubuntu is fantastic. It's also showing it's age, 20 years now. Tso, where are you when we need you most!?

bombcar on July 4, 2025 | | [–]

Or someday a file system will somehow piss off Linus and he’ll write one in a weekend or something ;)

XorNot on July 4, 2025 | | [–]

I mean, is it? It's a filesystem and it works. How is it "showing its age"?

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