[rolandog]

The author does have a point; the whole BcacheFS drama was in part because of comments that criticized other filesystem's design (granted, the straw that broke the camel's back where comments alluding to a developer needing to get their head checked out, and some faux-pas like adding a feature when a change freeze was already in place).

[procaryote]

I had the impression it was about repeatedly ignoring the development process, and assuming the experimental bcachefs module moving quickly was somehow more important than the rest of the kernel being stable

[rolandog]

Yes, agreed. Though that's what I meant by "in part": when you read the threads, they derail when Kent takes potshots at other filesystems ... whose developers were CC'd in the mailing list.

To be honest, some of those reactions did feel a bit out of proportion; I am not entirely sure if there could be other reasons for blowing Kent's attitude out of proportion: (Like, does someone stand to benefit that a COW-filesystem without too many sharp edges isn't shipped?).