The maintainer for the bcachefs
filesystem sends a last-minute patch into the upcoming 6.11 tree, claiming that its an important bug fix and it cannot wait to be merged into 6.12. Linus is not happy because the patch is quite large and it also seems to do more than a simple bugfix, adding risk of breaking things into a release that's almost ready to come out.
Here's a phoronix article giving a bit more explaination: https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linus-Torvalds-Bcachefs-Regrets
Some random people in the Phoronix thread fight each other, discussing if it was right for Linus to scold the maintainer like this: https://www.phoronix.com/forums/forum/software/general-linux-open-source/1487364-linus-torvalds-begins-expressing-regrets-merging-bcachefs/page17
On a related note, you might have also heard about bcachefs
this week because the Debian maintainer for the bcachefs-tools
dropped the package, citing that its way too difficult to package now due to Rust: https://jonathancarter.org/2024/08/29/orphaning-bcachefs-tools-in-debian/
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and filesystem cute twinks, the two biggest enemies of linux in current year. I've never heard of bcachefs and bcachefs-cowtools before, but sounds like they should both be deleted completely from the kernel and debian, respectively.
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