Linux 6.7 Released With Bcachefs, Intel Meteor Lake In Good Shape & Nouveau GSP Support

[phoronix]

Phoronix: Linux 6.7 Released With Bcachefs, Intel Meteor Lake In Good Shape & Nouveau GSP Support

As anticipated Linus Torvalds went ahead and just released the Linux 6.7 kernel as the first new version of 2024...

https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-6.7-Released

[avis]

A human readable changelog: https://kernelnewbies.org/Linux_6.7 "missing a lot of stuff, will be completed in a few days".

[lyamc]

I'm already running it, using bcachefs alongside my btrfs pool and so far, so good. Here's my fstab:

/dev/disk/by-uuid/a0c356ec-af93-4b6e-bcfe-ac60a00867ff /media/btrfs-pool btrfs defaults,nofail 0 0
/dev/disk/by-partuuid/83bf248d-da27-4c34-b1fa-7446ac041c21:/dev/disk/by-partuuid/3e3c1823-a9e7-41e1-8e26-83023b7611cb:/dev/disk/by-partuuid/09276acb-c838-4bd0-8681-cd49c80c05d5:/dev/disk/by-partuuid/946969bb-a424-4871-9a10-c33286583ef4:/dev/disk/by-partuuid/0e880322-c7d4-43a5-91c7-6245f560e4ab:/dev/disk/by-partuuid/8fb6e45f-8d3b-4b49-a13b-4451625d820b /media/bcachefs-pool bcachefs noauto,nofail,rw,relatime,metadata_replicas=2,data_replicas=2,compression=lz4,background_target=hdd,fix_errors=yes,nojournal_transaction_names 0 0​

Apparently something with boot-time mounting is failing so I added "noauto" and this systemd script

[Unit]
Description=Mount storage partition

[Service]
Type=oneshot
ExecStart=mount /media/bcachefs-pool

[Install]
WantedBy=local-fs.target​

I'd do benchmarks but it wouldn't be apples to apples: btrfs isn't using compression and it has different physical HDDs. However, both are RAID10 as far as these both do that.

[pWe00Iri3e7Z9lHOX2Qx]

Only tangentially related, but I was looking in the OpenSUSE kernel repo to see if 6.7 was already available, and I noticed that there's a new target for Slowroll that's currently tracking 6.1.x LTS here: https://download.opensuse.org/reposi...andard/x86_64/. That's pretty neat for folks that would be coming from Leap. It will be even cooler if they add a Slowroll target to their filesystem repo to build the matching ZFS packages, and cooler still if they manage to offer multiple LTS versions (e.g. 6.6.x) or just cut over to the new LTS after it is christened as such on kernel.org (maybe that's already the plan).

[varikonniemi]

A human readable changelog: https://kernelnewbies.org/Linux_6.7 "missing a lot of stuff, will be completed in a few days".

Impressive amount of btrfs updates in this release, even significant ones like the preparatory work for finally gettin raid56 reliable. So in this sense as of version 6.7 btrfs and bcachefs are on the same level of raid56 feature completion. Available for testing, but not yet stable.

[spicfoo]

Impressive amount of btrfs updates in this release, even significant ones like the preparatory work for finally gettin raid56 reliable. So in this sense as of version 6.7 btrfs and bcachefs are on the same level of raid56 feature completion. Available for testing, but not yet stable.

The difference here is that Btrfs screwed up their communication by merging experimental features without clearly denoting it as such for years. The feature set that distros tend to enable by default OTOH is pretty reasonable.

[PuckPoltergeist]

Impressive amount of btrfs updates in this release, even significant ones like the preparatory work for finally gettin raid56 reliable. So in this sense as of version 6.7 btrfs and bcachefs are on the same level of raid56 feature completion. Available for testing, but not yet stable.

Raid56 is still using the old code in btrfs. Nothing available for testing here.

[PuckPoltergeist]

The difference here is that Btrfs screwed up their communication by merging experimental features without clearly denoting it as such for years. The feature set that distros tend to enable by default OTOH is pretty reasonable.

What are you speaking about?

[varikonniemi]

Raid56 is still using the old code in btrfs. Nothing available for testing here.

the old unstable code is available for testing, as with bcachefs the old unstable code is available for testing (but behind experimental flag, so more honest)

[spicfoo]

What are you speaking about?

What is the question about specifically?