[koverstreet]

> The last time I was paying attention a few months ago, most of the work going into btrfs seemed to be all about improving performance and zoned devices. They won’t reply to any questions or offers for funding or personnel to complete work. It’s all very weird and unfortunate.

By the way, if that was serious, bcachefs would love the help, and more people are joining the party.

I would love to find someone to take over erasure coding and finish it off.

[csnover]

In my case it was a last-ditch effort to get them to explain what was keeping them from making raid actually safe. Others have offered more concrete support more recently[0], I guess you could try reaching out to them, though I suppose they are interested in funding btrfs because they are using btrfs.

I share the sentiments of others in this discussion that I hope you are able to resolve the process issues so that bcachefs does become a viable long-term filesystem. There likely won’t be any funding from anyone ever if it looks like it’s going to get the boot. btrfs also has substantial project management issues (take a look at the graveyard of untriaged bug reports on kernel.org as one more example[1]), they just manage to keep theirs under the radar.

[0] https://lore.kernel.org/linux-btrfs/CAEFpDz+R3rLW8iujSd2m4jH...

[1] https://bugzilla.kernel.org/buglist.cgi?bug_status=__open__&...

[koverstreet]

Well, bcachefs has the safe, high performance problem solved.

But I really just don't know what to do if technology has become a popularity contest instead of about the technology :)