“I think we’ll be parting ways in the 6.17 merge window.”
Bcachefs spent a decade trying to get into the kernel and lasted barely a year and a half before Torvalds started talking about kicking it out. The core issue is that maintainer Kent Overstreet keeps submitting new features during the stabilization phase when only bug fixes are allowed. This is a personality clash dressed up as a process dispute. Two stubborn developers who refuse to bend, and the filesystem’s users are the ones who get to suffer for it.