Frankly, if you store important data on an experimental file system and don’t have backups, you deserve to lose it.
And I have to imagine that those that are technical enough to not only use Linux, but use an experimental non-default file system, and those that don’t have backups of their data, is a vanishingly small group.
So no, I actually disagree —- it’s not part of the job.
So again we arrive at the same place: this data recovery tool is not worth the drama.
It’s a feature, not a bug fix, and an incredibly unimportant one at that _at this stage of development_. If bcachefs weren’t experimental and were widely used, it would be a different story —- I’d probably be in favor of bending the rules to get it in there faster. But that just isn’t where we are right now.
And I have to imagine that those that are technical enough to not only use Linux, but use an experimental non-default file system, and those that don’t have backups of their data, is a vanishingly small group.
So no, I actually disagree —- it’s not part of the job.
So again we arrive at the same place: this data recovery tool is not worth the drama.
It’s a feature, not a bug fix, and an incredibly unimportant one at that _at this stage of development_. If bcachefs weren’t experimental and were widely used, it would be a different story —- I’d probably be in favor of bending the rules to get it in there faster. But that just isn’t where we are right now.