“One concern is that once bcachefs gets merged, it will be difficult for anyone besides Overstreet to deal with the bug reports, Amir Goldstein said.”
Kent Overstreet wants 90,000 lines of filesystem code merged in 2,500 patches, and most kernel developers say they will not review the filesystem itself. The backup is Brian Foster at Red Hat, if he is willing to step up. Overstreet says that without help he would “go insane and run away to South America”. The kernel already has a removal path for abandoned filesystems, and that is the real safety net.