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Running The Bcachefs DKMS Modules On Ubuntu Linux
With DKMS packages now being available for Ubuntu and Debian Linux distributions for running the latest out-of-tree Bcachefs file-system driver support with ease and reproducibility, I decided to try out the updated Bcachefs driver on Ubuntu Linux to see how the performance is relative to the upstream Linux 6.17 kernel with its now-frozen Bcachefs support. Bcachefs lead developer Kent Overstreet is now maintaining the Debian/Ubuntu packages for Dynamic Kernel Module Support (DKMS) modules to make it easy running the latest Bcachefs code -- both the kernel modules and then the Bcachefs user-space tools too -- with ease.
With DKMS packages now being available for Ubuntu and Debian Linux distributions for running the latest out-of-tree Bcachefs file-system driver support with ease and reproducibility, I decided to try out the updated Bcachefs driver on Ubuntu Linux to see how the performance is relative to the upstream Linux 6.17 kernel with its now-frozen Bcachefs support. Bcachefs lead developer Kent Overstreet is now maintaining the Debian/Ubuntu packages for Dynamic Kernel Module Support (DKMS) modules to make it easy running the latest Bcachefs code -- both the kernel modules and then the Bcachefs user-space tools too -- with ease. Bcachefs is both with the upstream Linux 6.17 state and then the Bcachefs DKMS packages alongside the Linux 6.17 benchmarks of Btrfs, EXT4, F2FS, OpenZFS, and XFS file-systems.
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