So with the recent drama it looks like bcachefs isn’t going to stay in the kernel for too long. What do I do now? I have my root filesystem as bcachefs on multiple devices. Is it possible to migrate to btrfs or ext4?
So with the recent drama it looks like bcachefs isn’t going to stay in the kernel for too long.
That’s way too doomsaying. Even after ReiserFS’ developer was sentenced in 2006, it took till 2022 for it to be deprecated. And it has only recently been left out of of the kernel.
Don’t have a knee-jerk reaction to every news post that you see. We have yet to see what will happen and you will have loads of time to decide on what to do when we do know if it will get pulled. You will be able to use your current kernel version with it for as long as you need to even if it does get pulled from the next version. So I would wait and see what actually happens.
Best option is likely a reinstall of your OS to move off it though there are other more involved ways like copying your rootfs off, reformatting and copying it back before reinstalling your bootloader. A reinstall is likely going to be quicker though.
https://news.itsfoss.com/linux-kernel-bcachefs/
For those of us that are out of the loop.
It’s high school level drama. Competent adults will work it out.
I like this response best so far (from the actual mailing list): https://lwn.net/ml/linux-kernel/[email protected]/ (from Martin Steigerwald)
Do you really think that power-playing Kent into submission by doing a public apology is doing anything good to resolve the issue at hand?
While it may not really compare to some of the wording Linus has used before having been convinced to change his behavior… I do not agree with the wording Kent has used. I certainly do not condone it.
But this forced public apology approach in my point of view is very likely just to cement the division instead of heal it. While I publicly disagreed with Kent before, I also publicly disagree with this kind of Code of Conduct enforcement. I have seen similar patterns within the Debian community and in my point of view this lead to the loss of several Debian developers who contributed a lot to the project while leaving behind frustration and unresolved conflict.
No amount of power play is going to resolve this. Just exercising authority is not doing any good in here. This needs mediation, not forced public humiliation.
To me, honestly written, this whole interaction feels a bit like I’d imagine children may be fighting over a toy. With a majority of the children grouping together to single out someone who does not appear to fit in at first glance. I mean no offense with that. This is just the impression I got so far. The whole interaction just does not remind me of respectful communication between adult human beings. I have seen it with myself… in situations where it was challenging for me to access what I learned, for whatever reason, I had been acting similarly to a child. So really no offense meant. This is just an impression I got and wanted to mirror back to you for your consideration.
This quote is not the entire response, but most of it. Edit: I totally forgot to include a link. Added now.
To me it sounds like Shuah is trying to prove his position has a value while also being on this level of a power trip
While I understand the sentiment, I’d argue that an apology should be made in the same context as what you’re apologizing for. Kent made his statements on the LKML - if his apology is sincere, I don’t think it’s too much to ask to put it there as well
I’m not a fan of forced apology. It’s just there like forcing a billionaire to apology, so some people feel better and to get a false sense. An apology should come from them without asking for one. Otherwise it loses its meaning and is only a formal apology, not a meaningful one. It can even make it worse, because people tend to forget look over the issue as resolved. As said, I do not like the idea at all.
Nobody forced him to apologize. On the other hand, the Linux community isn’t forced to take his patches.
LTS Kernels are not affected, aren’t they? I also wonder if some distributions will patch in bcachefs support for non LTS.
Currently, there’s no serious discussion about removal from mainline. And LTS won’t remove it.
Should it happen, you can still use Kent’s kernel tree as before. Whether distributions ship it - who knows.
If there’s no mainline or dkms support, I’ll move my storage away from it in favor of btrfs that I’ve successfully used the years before instead of switching to LTS. Just because of future maintainability and migration options.
