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 ...

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, ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...