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Bcachefs To Remove Its Experimental Label In Linux 6.18 - If It's Still In The Kernel


With the Linux 6.17 merge window now open, Bcachefs file-system lead developer Kent Overstreet has submitted his planned changes for this next kernel version

With the Linux 6.17 merge window now open, Bcachefs file-system lead developer Kent Overstreet has submitted his planned changes for this next kernel version. He also started off the pull request by commenting that for the next cycle (Linux 6.18) he wants to drop the long-held "experimental" flag on Bcachefs: As for the changes desired in Linux 6.17, he calls it no noteworthy features as the file-system is in a "hard freeze" but there are lots of bug fixes.

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