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Seeing great results from bcachefs just makes me more sad that Kent and the other kernel devs couldn't come to an understanding to keep bcachefs in-tree. I want to use it for my storage arrays so badly, but I'm still stuck with btrfs as the only available in-tree filesystem with modern features.

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> Seeing great results from bcachefs just makes me more sad that Kent and the other kernel devs couldn't come to an understanding to keep bcachefs in-tree.

I think you are sugarcoating the shit show that was bcachefs's history of involvement in the linux kernel. I mean, do I need to mention that the person was subjected to a code of conduct enforcement action due to his long history of abuse and unprofessional behavior?

https://lwn.net/Articles/999197/

No, you probably didn't need to mention that.

Personally I've had 0 issues with the bcachefs dkms packages from distro repos. Unlike zfs it keeps up with upstream kernel releases so it's far less hassle than running zfs dkms.

> Unlike zfs it keeps up with upstream kernel releases

Most normal users and especially servers have no reason to run latest upstream kernels

You can use NASty as NAS appliance. It's based on NixOS, offers flexibility, atomic upgrades and all bells and whistles of bcachefs.

NixOS. You can't go wrong.

What do u mean NixOS? It's an OS not a file system

NixOS thoroughly solves all the external module fragility. They also do distro level CI testing.

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