Why “Bcachefs” is being discussed
The most recent Hacker News stories and comments contributing to this topic's mentions.
Thought about a real fork going in its own direction. I would love to use bcachefs in all our products. But the current state does not qualify for usage within enterprise enviro…
by r0l1 · Sep 21, 2026
> Is there any chance bcachefs will be included again in the future? If a professional and mature developer who understands a release cycle is willing to step up as a maintainer…
by locknitpicker · Sep 21, 2026
> I'd like to point out that HN user koverstreet was involved in those threads, here. Yes, that's why those remarks on how it's a mystery how bcachefs was pulled from the kernel…
by locknitpicker · Sep 21, 2026
Don’t know Almalinux, but can vouch for bcachefs root being just fine with NixOS.
by d12bb · Sep 20, 2026
Within the last year? I think bcachefs is going to be overtaking btrfs soon on active developers, from the trends I saw in the commit logs
by koverstreet · Sep 20, 2026
At this point with these results I wonder if there’s big corp backing for bcachefs yet? I’d imagine they’d want to migrate to it at some point for some of their uses.
by cromka · Sep 20, 2026
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Bcachefs is a copy-on-write (COW) file system for Linux-based operating systems. It is intended to compete with the modern features of ZFS or Btrfs. Read more on Wikipedia