Reading the kernel mailing lists wrt/ bcachefs, it looked more like a cattle prod than an olive branch to me… Kent didn't do nothing other maintainers don't do except make one filesystem that doesn't get irrecoverably corrupted on brownout.

I'm just sorry for the guy and perhaps a little bit sorry for myself that I might have to reformat my primary box at some point…

Also unrelated, but Sun was a very open source friendly company with a wide portfolio of programs licensed under GNU licenses, without some of which Linux would still be useless to the general public.

Overall, designing a good filesystem is very hard, so perhaps don't bite the hand that feeds you…?