There’s been some Friday night kernel drama on the Linux kernel mailing list Linus Torvalds has expressed regrets for merging the Bcachefs file-system and an ensuing back-and-forth between the file-system maintainer.

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    You can disable COW for specific files btw

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      gods, imagine saying this to a normal user

      “what the fuck is a file?

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        Normal users don’t have VM images

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        Gnome boxes and libvirt do it automatically for their VM directories it works and a normal user doesn’t have to know a bunch.