A new chapter in the ongoing saga of integrating the Bcachefs file system into the Linux kernel has unfolded, marked by rising tensions and uncertainty. Kent Overstreet, the lead developer of Bcachefs ...

The latest version of the Linux distribution SystemRescue, now available as version 12.00, offers significant updates for system recovery and data access. This Arch-based tool allows users to restore ...

Kent Overstreet today released Bcachefs 1.37 as the newest feature release to this out-of-tree file-system driver and user-space tooling for this next-gen, copy-on-write file-system. The Bcachefs ...

It’s here; Linux 6.18 is officially released, delivering another sizeable set of performance gains, new hardware support and a controversial goodbye. Linus Torvalds announced Linux 6.18’s release on ...

The Bcachefs file system recently hit a major milestone, but not the one developers hoped for. Linus Torvalds officially removed the core Bcachefs code from the main Linux kernel tree. This definitive ...

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 officially ...

As you may already know, the Bcachefs file system is moving out of the main Linux kernel and will now ship as an external DKMS module. Kent Overstreet, the Bcachefs developer, assures us that for most ...

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, ...