Bcachefs Might Be Ready For Upstreaming In Linux This Year – ‘The COW filesystem for Linux that won’t eat your data’

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The Bcachefs file-system that was born out of the Linux kernel’s block cache code has over the past few years matured greatly. Now in 2022 the core fundamentals of the file-system are “pretty close to done” and will hopefully be mainlined this calendar year into the Linux kernel.

Bcachefs has been in development since the mid-2010s and aims for speed while having ZFS/Btrfs-like features. It’s been under heavy feature development and with time picking up features such as Btrfs-like snapshots or referred to as bad@$$ snapshots, among other promising feature work to allow it to compete as a next-gen file-system.

See https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=Bcachefs-2022-Hopes

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source https://gadgeteer.co.za/bcachefs-might-be-ready-for-upstreaming-in-linux-this-year-the-cow-filesystem-for-linux-that-wont-eat-your-data/