Another week, another round of [1]Bcachefs file-system fixes for the mainline Linux kernel.

The Bcachefs file-system driver has been working toward [2]more robust recovery and repair support and in the weeks since the Linux 6.9 merge window has continued seeing [3]many fixes land to the point of it being [4]acknowledged by Linus Torvalds in the RC release announcements .

On Monday a new weekly batch of Bcachefs fixes were submitted ahead of Linux 6.9-rc6 due out next Sunday. With this round, Bcachefs maintainer Kent Overstreet is hoping all of the recovery and repair issues are settling down. He noted in the latest [5]pull request :

"Nothing too crazy in this one, and it looks like (fingers crossed) the recovery and repair issues are settling down - although there's going to be a long tail there, as we've still yet to really ramp up on error injection or syzbot.

For users - if anyone is seeing bugs that impact filesystem availability, make sure you're reporting those and be noisy about it; all the non critical stuff should be reported too, but are lower priority for now."

Bcachefs remains an experimental file-system within the mainline kernel but has shown much promise around its features and functionality. These latest repair and recovery improvements were merged to Git overnight.



[1] https://www.phoronix.com/search/Bcachefs

[2] https://www.phoronix.com/news/Bcachefs-Repair-Looking-Good

[3] https://www.phoronix.com/news/More-Bcachefs-For-Linux-6.9-rc5

[4] https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-6.9-rc3-Released

[5] https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/fwtvoxp2ktrhst5rm2yk4uk5atjuvnfpg7wjrozg2zd5p7tqzo@mca5izehz5fx/