The bcachefs filesystem has been under development for a number of years now; according to lead developer Kent Overstreet, it is time to start talking about getting the code upstream. He came to the ...

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 ...

Bcache was first announced by ex-Google engineer Kent Overstreet a little over five years ago. Now the Linux kernel block layer cache is being used as the basis for a new open source filesystem. The ...

Bcachefs is a Linux kernel block layer cache that aims at offering a speedier and more advanced way of storing data on servers. Bcachefs promises to provide the same performance and reliability as the ...

An ex-Google engineer is developing a new file system for Linux, with the hopes that it can offer a speedier and more advanced way of storing data on servers. After a number of years of development, ...

In a saga that brings to mind the hype and incidents with ReiserFS, [SavvyNik] takes us through the latest data corruption bug report and developer updates regarding the BcacheFS filesystem in the ...

Linus Torvalds has indicated that he wants to remove the experimental support for the still young Bcachefs file system in Linux 6.17. Whether this will actually happen remains to be seen. It remains ...

News briefs for May 10, 2018. It is here: Firefox 60 "Quantum" is available for download! Now with Client Side Decorations (CSD) and much more! And development for Firefox 61 has already begun. Kent ...