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Bcachefs Patches Aim For Faster Snapshot Deletion But With Another On-Disk Format Update
In addition to Bcachefs working on better self-healing / automatic repair capabilities, this modern copy-on-write file-system is also working on faster snapshot deletion performance
Bcachefs lead developer Kent Overstreet posted the patch series on Friday for improving the snapshot deletion code. Previously only fsck relied on this, so it would spit out a warning and correct the issue in its in memory data structures if this occurred. Bcachefs has been working to settle down changes around its on-disk format and aimed for it to be "soft frozen" in Linux 6.15 ahead of eventually removing the experimental flag on the file-system.
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