On Thu, 19 Jun 2025 at 16:06, Kent Overstreet <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> - New option: journal_rewind
>
> This lets the entire filesystem be reset to an earlier point in time.
>
> Note that this is only a disaster recovery tool, and right now there
> are major caveats to using it (discards should be disabled, in
> particular), but it successfully restored the filesystem of one of the
> users who was bit by the subvolume deletion bug and didn't have
> backups. I'll likely be making some changes to the discard path in the
> future to make this a reliable recovery tool.
You seem to have forgotten what the point of the merge window was again.
We don't start adding new features just because you found other bugs.
I remain steadfastly convinced that anybody who uses bcachefs is
expecting it to be experimental. They had better.
Make the -rc fixes be pure fixes.
Linus
