There’s been some Friday night kernel drama on the Linux kernel mailing list… Linus Torvalds has expressed regrets for merging the Bcachefs file-system and an ensuing back-and-forth between the file-system maintainer.

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    19 days ago

    A rather overly simplistic view of filesystem design.

    More complex data structures are harder to optimise for pretty much all operations, but I’d suggest the overwhelmingly most important metric for performance is development time.

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      19 days ago

      At the end of the day the performance of a performance oriented filesystem matters. Without performance, it’s just complexity