Re: [GIT PULL] bcachefs changes for 6.17

From: Kent Overstreet
Date: Tue Aug 12 2025 - 16:57:45 EST


On Tue, Aug 12, 2025 at 02:54:21PM -0600, Keith Busch wrote:
> On Tue, Aug 12, 2025 at 04:45:48PM -0400, Kent Overstreet wrote:
> > On Tue, Aug 12, 2025 at 02:38:26PM -0600, Keith Busch wrote:
> > > On Tue, Aug 12, 2025 at 04:31:53PM -0400, Kent Overstreet wrote:
> > > > If you're interested, is it time to do some spec quoting and language
> > > > lawyering?
> > >
> > > If you want to start or restart a thread on the block list specificaly
> > > for that topic, then sure, happy to spec talk with you. But I don't want
> > > to chat on this one. I just wanted to know what you were talking about
> > > because the description seemed underhanded.
> >
> > Not underhanded, just straightforward - I've seen the test data, and the
> > spec seemed pretty clear to me...
>
> "the block layer developer who went on a four email rant where he,
> charitably, misread the spec or the patchset or both"
>
> Please revisit the thread and let me know me if you still stand by that
> description. I've no idea if you're talking about me or one of the other
> block developers on it, but I frankly don't see anything resembling what
> you're describing.

Well, since you asked, Christoph...

I want to say - no hard feelings, things being frosty between us goes
way back, and we've recently made efforts to work better together. But
that was pretty hard to respond to.