Linus Torvalds hints Bcachefs may get dropped from the Linux kernel

The geek titans are clashing once again, and Linux supremo Linus Torvalds has warned: "I think we'll be parting ways" as of kernel 6.17.

The latest installment in the continuing drama over the next-gen bcachefs filesystem is that Torvalds accepted the code, for now, but added a sobering warning:

I have pulled this, but also as per that discussion, I think we'll be parting ways in the 6.17 merge window.

You made it very clear that I can't even question any bug-fixes and I should just pull anything and everything.

Honestly, at that point, I don't really feel comfortable being involved at all, and the only thing we both seemed to really fundamentally agree on in that discussion was "we're done."

The Linux kernel is the world's biggest FOSS project, thanks in part to the strong control exerted by Torvalds himself. There ...