Re: [GIT PULL] bcachefs changes for 6.17

Martin Steigerwald
2025-08-10T10:22:35Z

Hi Theodore, hi,

Theodore Ts'o - 10.08.25, 07:59:55 CEST:
> On Sat, Aug 09, 2025 at 09:26:16PM -0700, Gerald B. Cox wrote:
> > And really, this whole thread feels beneath what the kernel community
> > should be. If there’s a serious question about bcachefs’s future, it
> > ought to be a quiet, direct conversation between Kent and Linus—not a
> > public spectacle.
>
> There has been private conversations with Kent. I will note that it
> was *Kent* who started this most recent round of e-mails[1]. In his
> e-mail, He slammed the Linux Kernel's "engineering standards", and
> btrfs in particular. I won't quote any of it here, because it really
> is quite toxic, but please note that it was Kent who started the
> discussion about btrfs. This kind of attack is Just Not Helpful, and
> this kind of behavior is, unfortunately, quite common coming from
> Kent.
>
> [1]
> https://lore.kernel.org/all/3ik3h6hfm4v2y3rtpjshk5y4wlm5n366overw2lp72q
> k5izizw@k6vxp22uwnwa/

I kind of agree that this thread would have gone better without this mail
from Kent.

Best,
--
Martin