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by rodgerd 1343 days ago
NILFS is absolutely wonderful; it was very unfortunate that Linus chose to dub btrfs as the ext4 successor all those years ago, because it cut off a lot of interest in the plethora of interesting work that was going on at the time.

A decade later and btrfs is still riddled with problems and incomplete, people are still using xfs and ext4 for lack of trust, one kernel dev has a side hobby trying to block openzfs, and excellent little projects like nilfs are largely unknown.
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perrygeo 1343 days ago
> one kernel dev has a side hobby trying to block openzfs

Can you elaborate?

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E39M5S62 1342 days ago
I don't know if everything has been collected in an easy-to-digest form, but GKH has gone out of his way a few times to shut out OpenZFS.
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rodgerd 1342 days ago
Exactly. Removing or changing the licensing on APIs in a way carefully targeted to break ZFS, but not affect actual proprietary drivers such as the NVidia graphics drivers.
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_kdave 1342 days ago
> it was very unfortunate that Linus chose to dub btrfs as the ext4 successor

That quote is from Ted T'so (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Btrfs#History) or do you have a link to Linus' quote?

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