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Comment by jethro_tell | Hacker News Reader

I like that we are seeing competition in this space. I think it's good for business.

I do however see some big red flags in the linked page:

> Starting from there, bcachefs development has prioritized incremental development, and keeping things stable, and aggressively fixing design issues as they are found

Which is it? Big design changes or stable FS?

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From what the developer has stated on reddit, it's more like he wants to aggressively make changes on the filesystem right now, before any attempt at mainlining into the kernel, to not end up like btrfs, which in his view, was mainlined prematurely.

It does make sense to have it rock-solid stable before mainlining, so that people don't get burned by it early on.

"I like that we are seeing competition in this space. I think it's good for business."

I wonder why Hans Reiser doesn't take up filesystem work again ? He has plenty of time on his hands ...

You know honestly, I've always wondered why prisons don't have a bunch of computers for retaining. I mean, if there's a chance of conspiracy a specific inmate shouldn't have access, but your run of the mill street thug would probably really benefit from learning Linux system administration, web site building, coding . . .. It would probably be a lot easier to find gainful employment in a high demand field and would help break the cycle. If they were allowed to work, the people with longer sentences could help break the cycle for their dependants as well.

Guess that's probably the answer.

My impression was that the base, bcache, is stable. The file system layer, bcachefs, has big design changes

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