Re: [GIT PULL] bcachefs fixes for 6.16-rc3

[Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>]

On Thu, 19 Jun 2025 at 16:06, Kent Overstreet <kent.overstreet@linux.dev> wrote:
>
> - New option: journal_rewind
>
>   This lets the entire filesystem be reset to an earlier point in time.
>
>   Note that this is only a disaster recovery tool, and right now there
>   are major caveats to using it (discards should be disabled, in
>   particular), but it successfully restored the filesystem of one of the
>   users who was bit by the subvolume deletion bug and didn't have
>   backups. I'll likely be making some changes to the discard path in the
>   future to make this a reliable recovery tool.

You seem to have forgotten what the point of the merge window was again.

We don't start adding new features just because you found other bugs.

I remain steadfastly convinced that anybody who uses bcachefs is
expecting it to be experimental. They had better.

Make the -rc fixes be pure fixes.

                Linus