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Bcachefs Lands More Improvements For Linux 6.16 After Data Loss Bug Hit v6.15


Last week many Bcachefs performance optimizations, recovery work, and enhanced error messages were merged at the start of the Linux 6.16 merge window

"This took longer to debug than it should have, and we lost several filesystems unnecessarily, becuase users have been ignoring the release notes and blindly running 'fsck -y'. As a reminder, fsck errors are being marked as autofix once we've verified, in real world usage, that they're working correctly; blindly running 'fsck -y' on an experimental filesystem is playing with fire. This is a community effort, I wouldn't be able to get this done without the help of all the people QAing and providing excellent bug reports and feedback based on real world usage.

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