Interview with Kent Overstreet (Bcachefs) [audio]

Whenever Phoronix runs benchmarks, bcachefs does very poorly. It often gets attributed to the small 512 bytes instead of 4096 other file systems use.

Why is 512 the default and, if 4096 is better, why is this not the default instead?

Is the on disk format likely to change again. Or can we expect that to remain stable?

Oh cool.

Happy to answer questions about all things bcachefs or what-have-you.

just please no more questions about whether or not bcachefs will be in the kernel, I've been asked that enough :)

What's the end goal for bacachefs?

this was a really cool interview.

kinda makes me want to rebuild part of my homelab with bcacheFS

Unfortunately there doesn't seem to be any questions and answers about why bcachefs isn't in the kernel? It was but now it isn't. There was some hemming and hawwing about "testing"?

Too bad this is audio. I have no patience for that (ADHD). There's no writeup anywhere is there? I don't see it.

I didn't realize that Linux Unplugged was still going; I haven't followed anything in the Jupiter Broadcasting sphere in almost a decade.

I'll queue this up to listen though I'm always afraid because I think Chris has gone pretty deep into conservative politics and that has the tendency of really pissing me off (though he's not as bad as Lunduke).