@oldtaku - "Practically, it'd be more productive if everyone got together and worked in perfect harmony on the UberFileSystem."
Well, there's also the thing that there's no one size fits all file system either. File systems that work best on large file servers can be excessively resource hungry on PCs. File systems that work best on PCs don't have all the advanced features or performance for large file servers. Systems like ZFS or BTRFS tend to take up to take huge gobs of RAM to run properly and that's probably inherent to the features which people want to use them in.
The article and the original post don't say is what applications they are targeting with Bcachfs. What I would like to see is a replacement for Ext4 before that file system runs out of steam due to increasing disk size. Things like checksumming are important with large disks because of how long it takes to run a conventional scan on them. Right now the plan seems to be for BTRFS to replace Ext4, but I'm not sure that's the right decision.
Biting the hand that feeds IT
