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Bcachefs Outlines Plans For Shipping As A DKMS Out-Of-Tree Kernel Module
With Linus Torvalds having recently marked Bcachefs as being 'externally maintained' following ongoing disagreement over the generally accepted Linux kernel development practices, the plans were laid out today for shipping Bcachefs as an out-of-tree DKMS module.
With Linus Torvalds having recently marked Bcachefs as being "externally maintained" following ongoing disagreement over the generally accepted Linux kernel development practices, the plans were laid out today for shipping Bcachefs as an out-of-tree DKMS module. Bcachefs lead developer Kent Overstreet laid out his plans for shipping the file-system kernel driver as a DKMS (Dynamic Kernel Module Support) module moving forward. The other part of the equation expressed in the mailing list post is the hope that distributions will continue to update their bcachefs-tools package for the user-space components around Bcachefs.
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