New Linux Kernel Drama: Torvalds Drops Bcachefs Support After Clash
Things have taken a bad turn for Bcachefs as Linux supremo Linus Torvalds is not happy with their objections.
Things have taken a bad turn for Bcachefs as Linux supremo Linus Torvalds is not happy with their objections.
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Anyone else here actively put off by Linux drama and headlines like "Torvalds Drops support After Clash!"
EDIT: New rule?
I'm really glad Torvalds is the kind of person to flip articles like this off and carry on with his day and just not be affected by it at all. When the time comes, I hope whoever carries the torch is just as well.
That's a good point, I have no doubt Linux would not be in the position it is if he were more sensitive to it.
At the very least, it would be far more of a circus, as the follow-up articles would read "LINUX KERNEL CREATOR LINUS TORVALDS MAKES DEVESTATING REPLY TO FOSS DRAMA!"
But yeah, I think shit like that would just make devs want to go work for a company, because at least when they make a shitty closed sourced, exploitive program people are mad at the company, not them, specifically. They don't have to deal with this shit.
This is a non-issue, being over-reported by people looking for clicks. A minor technical matter being handled by the person ultimately responsible for handling such things
Yeah for sure there's ton of clickbait, but this isn't "a minor technical matter". The news here isn't the clash over whether the patch should be accepted in the RC branch, but the fact that Linus said he wants to remove bcachefs from the kernel tree.
An experimental capability being kicked out of the kernel, so that it has to settle for being a kernel module or custom forks of the kernel, is absolutely a minor matter
Filesystems are incredibly antiquated, and while I don't agree with Kent's attitude, it is very important in the long run that filesystems catch back up.
As it stands just about any enterprise system you can poke a stick at is rolling their own customised file storage system, with a traditional filesystem typically being a misshapen dead weight sitting somewhere in the middle of it - existing because it's the only thing the kernel can integrate with.
It is pretty important that this trend reverses, and bcachefs was a big step in the right direction. Unfortunate that Kent is the way he is.
That's just like your opinion man.
As somebody that uses this filesystem, I disagree.
I don't see any drama. It's just people working together, having different priorities yet still getting things done. Some friction is to be expected.
This is literally literally a drama article
Ok, my mistake. I didn't express myself correctly. I wasn't referring to the article but to the communication between developers.
Put off in what way?
Please don't sealion me.
Don't you dare turn this around on me.
It's annoying to be treated that way isn't it?
Annoying in the sense that I don't understand what you are trying to say.
