More Bcachefs Fixes Land In Linux 6.7

Written by Michael Larabel in Linux Storage on 11 December 2023 at 08:03 PM EST. 63 Comments
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Of the many new features in Linux 6.7, one of the items exciting Phoronix readers the most is the merging of the long-in-development Bcachefs file-system.

Bcachefs was merged for Linux 6.7, a secondary set of changes helped improve the performance with some important changes, and further fixes have helped stabilize this new experimental file-system option for the new kernel. Merged tonight were another set of Bcachefs fixes for Linux 6.7.

Bcachefs Kconfig


This latest round of Bcachefs bug fixes are for a rare emergency shutdown path bug, fixing some concurrency issues, a race condition has been resolved, partially fixing a rare transaction paths overflow, a rare deadlock, and other file-system fixes.

See this Git merge for the full set of now-merged Bcachefs fixes for Linux 6.7.
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