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Bcachefs Aims For "Soft Frozen" On-Disk Format With Linux 6.15 Along With New Features
Last month Bcachefs lead developer Kent Overstreet talked of Bcachefs getting to the point of freezing its on-disk format with future on-disk format updates slated to be optional
Kent Overstreet announced in today's Bcachefs pull request for Linux 6.15 that the on-disk format is deemed "soft frozen" with no more required/automatic updates expected prior to dropping the experimental flag on the file-system. Other Bcachefs changes submitted for this new merge window include scrub support, blocksize greater than page size support that builds off the other BS greater than PS work for Linux 6.15, improved journal pipelining, device option handling improvements, continued work on self-healing, and the ability for Bcachefs file-systems to scale into the petabyte range. See this pull request for the full list of Bcachefs changes that will be part of Linux 6.15 -- assuming no objections from Linus Torvalds or other last-minute issues.
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