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There's been some Friday night kernel drama on the Linux kernel mailing list... Linus Torvalds has expressed regrets for merging the Bcachefs file-system and an ensuing back-and-forth between the file-system maintainer.

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[–] demizerone@lemmy.world 12 points 2 months ago (2 children)

I definitely feel bcachefs is much more practical than zfs for home storage, I've used both. I don't use zfs unless it's TrueNAS because of the licensing issues, but bcachefs solves all of that and you can use different sized drives. I look forward to it being stable and glad it's working out. Luckily the only side affect is Linus' regretfulness. 😂

[–] Lemmchen@feddit.org 2 points 2 months ago

Does it have native encryption?

[–] possiblylinux127@lemmy.zip 2 points 2 months ago

For now we have btrfs. Just keep in mind its limitations