The bcachefs file system, now "externally maintained" outside the Linux kernel codebase, offers packages of its first version to be loadable on the fly.… The development of bcachefs has been ...

Bcachefs is a longstanding out-of-tree filesystem that grew out of the bcache caching layer that has been in the kernel for nearly ten years. Based on a session led by Kent Overstreet at the 2022 ...

It’s been a tense few months for users of the BCacheFS filesystem, as amidst the occasional terse arguments and flowery self-praise on the Linux Kernel mailing list the future of this filesystem ...

The next kernel will have no new bcachefs code – and the openSUSE versions that use that kernel are going further still.… The maintainers of openSUSE have made a decision over the future of the ...

The bcachefs filesystem, and the process for getting it upstream, were the topics of a session led remotely by Kent Overstreet, creator of bcachefs, at the 2023 Linux Storage, Filesystem, ...

After repeated disagreements with the developer of the Bcachefs file system, Linus Torvalds has now declared the Bcachefs code of Linux as "externally maintained". The label is a novelty – and since ...

Linus Torvalds has officially released version 6.15 of the Linux kernel. While this update doesn’t include anything flashy or headline-grabbing, it continues the steady evolution of the most important ...

File system hounds have a new project to watch. bcachefs was released yesterday, bringing with it checksumming, compression, support for multiple devices, and caching. Eventually, the file system aims ...