Bcachefs.org Website Review

Bcachefs is an advanced new filesystem for Linux, with an emphasis on reliability and robustness. It has a long list of features, completed We prioritize robustness and reliability over features and hype: we make every effort to ensure you won't lose data. It's building on top of a codebase with a pedigree - bcache already has a reasonably good track record for reliability (particularly considering how young and keeping things stable, and aggressively fixing design issues as they are found; the bcachefs codebase is considerably more robust and Fixing bugs always take priority over features! This means getting features out takes longer, but for a filesystem not losing your data - the Patreon page also has more information on the motivation for bcachefs and the state of Linux filesystems, as well as some bcachefs If you don't want to use Patreon, I'm also happy to take donations via paypal: [email protected]. Join us in the bcache IRC channel, we have a small group of bcachefs users and testers there: #bcache on OFTC (irc.oftc.net). Bcachefs is not yet upstream - you'll have to build a kernel to use it. End user docu*entation is currently fairly minimal; this would be a very helpful area for anyone who wishes to contribute - I would like the bcache man page in the bcachefs-tools repository to be rewritten and expanded. Bcachefs can currently be considered beta quality. It has a small pool of outside users and has been stable for quite some time now; there's no reason to expect issues as long as you stick to the currently supported feature set. It's been pas*ing all xfstests for well over a year, and serious bugs are rare at this point. However, given that it's still under active development backups are a good idea. Normal posix filesystem functionality is all finished - if you're using bcachefs as a replacement for ext4 on a desktop, you shouldn't find anything missing. For servers, NFS export support is still missing (but coming soon) and we don't yet support quotas (probably