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Linux 6.18 arrives as the year's final drop and likely next LTS

The last new kernel release of 2025 is here, and it's looking likely this will be the new LTS kernel release.… On the last Sunday of November, Linus Torvalds announced Linux 6.18, the kernel that Ari ...
Hackaday

BCacheFS Is Now A DKMS Module After Exile From The Linux Kernel

It’s been a tense few months for users of the BCacheFS filesystem, as amidst the occasional terse arguments and flowery self-praise on the Linux Kernel mailing list the future of this filesystem ...
Hackaday

The Ongoing BcacheFS Filesystem Stability Controversy

In a saga that brings to mind the hype and incidents with ReiserFS, [SavvyNik] takes us through the latest data corruption bug report and developer updates regarding the BcacheFS filesystem in the ...
Linux Journal

Bcachefs Ousted from Mainline Kernel: The Move to DKMS and What It Means

After years of debate and development, bcachefs—a modern copy-on-write filesystem once merged into the Linux kernel—is being removed from mainline. As of kernel 6.17, the in-kernel implementation has ...
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Bcachefs file system apparently remains stagnant in Linux

After repeated disagreements with the developer of the Bcachefs file system, Linus Torvalds has now declared the Bcachefs code of Linux as "externally maintained". The label is a novelty – and since ...