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Linux is a family of open source Unix-like operating systems based on the Linux kernel, an operating system kernel first released on September 17, 1991 by Linus Torvalds. Linux is typically packaged in a Linux distribution (or distro for short).

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[–] [email protected] 26 points 1 year ago (3 children)

What I've read looks good but it's going to need a track record of reliability before I'd trust it.

[–] woelkchen 37 points 1 year ago

it’s going to need a track record of reliability before I’d trust it.

That's why kernel inclusion is so important: People can start testing it without jumping through hoops of manually patching and compiling the kernel.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Curious too. I tried running bcachefs last year and with the combination of compression and encryption everything ended up corrupted very very fast.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Did you find the root cause of the corruption?

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago

It was a known bug, I assume it is fixed now that Linus merged it.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Why? BTRFS never did, and it's used by a lot of people.