Bachefs short before removed from kernel

General system Kernel, boot, graphics & hardware
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This is the next escalation level between Linus Trovalds and Kent Overstreet (bcachefs developer).

Linus is very much annoyed by Kent and is threatening him to remove bcachefs from the kernel with kernel 6.17:

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Here we go again, this is becoming a telenovela. I hope they make up.

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Hah, cracks me up. Socially, Linus is/was not a ā€˜duckā€™ (replace word with forbidden one). On the 'Net, like many of usā€¦his personality goes wonky. You knowā€¦that thing about electronic communications vs face to face?
Lots of people are much nicer in person, etc.
It does sometimes seem, heā€™s a bit too ready to ā€˜Iā€™m going to take my kernel and go homeā€™, but then again Iā€™m not the one trying to manage multiple ā€˜personalitiesā€™ doing kernel development :wink:

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Am I missing something? Reading through those threads all I see is Linus asking him to follow the process and not include new features in the rc window.

The responses to that request seem prettyā€¦unique.

I guess maybe there is another discussion that happened somewhere else?

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Thatā€™s what I guessed too :wink:
Seriously, most of those type of discussions should probably be off the list ;0

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That was the case. The german IT magazin cā€™t says that the discussion was partly held on a non-public mailinglist.

https://www.heise.de/news/Linux-Torvalds-erwaegt-Rauswurf-des-Bcachefs-Dateisystems-10461896.html

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I think it was the right decision. No features during RC is a basic rule and this serves as a reminder that the rules apply to everybody.

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Dont know if anybody of you is following phoronix chat about btrfs at META:

In that chat Kent Overstreet (main bcachefs developer) participated and made a couple of comments. At the end there are two comments I want to highlight:

@koverstreet:
And now, I just got an email from Linus saying ā€œweā€™re now talking about
git rm -rf in 6.18ā€, after previously saying we just needed a
go-between.

So if thatā€™s the plan, I need to be arguing forcefully here, because a
lot is on the line for a lot of people.

and

@ihatemichael:
Iā€™m withdrawing my support for Kent Overstreet and bcachefs due to comments on
the bcache IRC about getting Linus Torvalds removed from his position via the
Code of Conduct. I now view the project as malicious and regret my negative
comments about Btrfs and Josef Bacik.

In addition Linus did not merge any bcachefs pull request into kernel 6.17.

I guess a miracle is needed to keep bcachefs in the kernel.