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More stable than what?

I have a multidevice filesystem, comprised of old HDDs and one sketchy PCI-SATA extension. This FS was assembled in 2019 and, though it went through periods of being non-writable, is still working and I haven't lost any[1] data. This is more than 5 years, multitude of FS version upgrades, multiple device replacements with corresponding data evacuation and rereplication.

[1] Technically, I did lose some, when a dying device started misbehaving and writing garbage, and I was impatient and ran a destructive fsck (with fix_errors) before waiting for a bug patch.

Don't want to compare it to other solutions but this is impressive even on its own merits.



> More stable than what?

IIRC the whole drama began because Kent was constantly pushing new features along with critical bug fixes after the proper merge window.

I meant stable in the sense where most changes are bug fixes, reducing the friction of working within the kernel schedules.


It was also an attitude/civility thing in addition to the code stuff.




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