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Some ~30 preparatory bcachefs patches have been posted for review for a month or so now, there was some discussion, but mostly negative discussion. Does anyone
by kzrdude 3y ago
Some ~30 preparatory bcachefs patches have been posted for review for a month or so now, there was some discussion, but mostly negative discussion.
Does anyone know how this actually works, is it going well for that patchset, is it getting closer to being merged?
- Tuna-Fish 3y agoThis is normal. The positive things don't need to be talked about. It is extremely unlikely that bcachefs will be merged as-is. This is true for anything of it's size. (These days... There have been large subsystems in the past that were merged in unacceptable state with the promise that eventually they will be fixed. They usually weren't. Which is why the bar is so high now.) But this just means that there will need to be debate and work to hammer it into a shape that is acceptable for the kernel. This can be a long process, but I don't think there is anything fundamentally wrong in bcachefs that would exclude it.
- kzrdude 3y agook, thanks. At least (as the article notes) there seems to be progress on the code generation question which was maybe the biggest objection ("proposed JIT allocator").