On 19/10/2024 22:18, Jani Partanen wrote:
On 19/10/2024 11.31, Martin Steigerwald wrote:
BCacheFS is marked experimental. My take with that is: As long as it is
marked experimental and you like to test it and give feedback, it is
important to move quickly enough to new kernel versions. It was and
partly
still is the same with BTRFS. Developers often asked users to use a
newer
kernel. Feedback on BCacheFS on 6.9 is quite likely not very useful to
Kent and other BCacheFS developers while they already work on what to
bring in for 6.13.
Issue is that normal user have no idea that bcachefs is experimental
because it is only told to be experimental IF you are building
building kernel yourself.
- modinfo does not say anything about experimental
- bcachefs user tool does not say anything about experimental. iirc
btrfs user tool warns that you are going to use experimental stuff
when you select raid5
I think the only place where that can be done sensibly (even
retroactively) is in the distro's package manager when one installs the
tools. Might have been something that could have been in the format
sub-command, but it's way too late for that now.
