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
