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> my hopes are pinned solidly on bcachefs Bcachefs is developed by a single person (however brilliant he may be) on a part time basis (I see only 4 commits sin
by antongribok 9y ago
> my hopes are pinned solidly on bcachefs
Bcachefs is developed by a single person (however brilliant he may be) on a part time basis (I see only 4 commits since May this year).
Unless I'm missing something (please correct me) bcachefs will not be replacing BTRFS, or any other filesystem, anytime soon.
- Veratyr 9y agoThese are good points and mostly why I said "hopes" rather than something stronger like "bets" or "production machines".
- josephg 9y ago> Bcachefs is developed by a single person (however brilliant he may be) on a part time basis (I see only 4 commits since May this year). I'm not sure how true this is of filesystems, but a lot of the best software I know is (or at least, was) developed by a single person. For example, Redis, Sqlite, Lmdb, most malloc implementations, varnishcache, h2o, (nginx?), chipmunk-2d, most of dragonflybsd (including HAMMER). Many projects get more contributors after the code is working well enough to see popular production use. But programmers working alone can accomplish some pretty impressive stuff.
- user5994461 9y agolmdb/openldap is developed by a commercial company. The other products you mentioned BEGAN with a single person. They had more resources later.