Bcachefs to be removed from mainline Linux kernel

[itvision]

I've talked to Linus personally about the entire issue and yes, in 6.18 bcachefs is getting dropped.

I cannot quote him because it's private. Kent is also aware of his decision.

[rekoil]

Sad to see, I was excited to switch to bcachefs on a new setup.

[throwaway2832]

Good riddance!

[tucnak]

What is this FUD or what? I read the thread in full, and removing bcachefs had only been suggested in view of otherwise regular bcachefs drama.

[mzaccari]

I think the op was trying to highlight this nugget in one of the thread emails[0]:

>And now, I just got an email from Linus saying "we're now talking about git rm -rf in 6.18", after previously saying we just needed a go-between.

Edit to add that LWN noted this at the end of the "The rest of the 6.17 merge window" post[1].

[0]: https://lwn.net/ml/all/5ip2wzfo32zs7uznaunpqj2bjmz3log4yrrde...

[1]: https://lwn.net/SubscriberLink/1032095/06b4e3b1b30fe2a9/

[unquietwiki]

I think OP is expecting that to be the outcome, given the roughly 2/3rds "Kent is (insert insinuation)" vs the 1/3rd "your stuff works, please stick around".

I worked for a guy that was looking forward to this work five years ago for a business product need. I'm glad to see it's made some headway in that time, but I have to wonder what it'd take to salvage the introduction of it to the Linux public at large. How do you even reset this mess?

[jonahbenton]

Heh, agree. It feels like a part 1, where Linus starts part 2 with- ok, had enough, you're out- and the rest is fallout.