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… Both times Bcachefs was freshly formatted and mounted using the default mount options. The Samsung 9100 PRO 1TB NVMe SSD was used for all of the Bcachefs benchmarks. No other changes were made to the software or hardware state besides this Bcachefs version comparison. …
… It is expected next month – the latest release candidate, 7.0-rc4 , appeared the same day as the new bcachefs release. As we reported last year , bcachefs is now being developed outside of the Linux kernel again, but it can be loaded as a DKMS module. …
Bcachefs Tools 1.38.6 Brings Many Performance Improvements Written by Michael Larabel in Linux Storage on 17 June 2026 at 04:06 PM EDT. 17 Comments Kent Overstreet announced the release today of Bcachefs-Tools 1.38.6 as the user-space tools built around the Bcachefs copy-on-write file-system. …
… This time last year, we looked at SystemRescue 12 , which had kernel 6.12 – its first version with the new bcachefs filesystem built in. Bcachefs first debuted with kernel 6.7 and was ejected again 10 versions later . …
… Bcachefs Tools 1.38.6 Brings Many Performance Improvements IO uring, NVMe & Other Block + Device Mapper Changes Merged For Linux 7.2 Linux Enacts Guidance To Tighten Acceptance Of New File-Systems Into The Kernel Btrfs Now Enables Large Folios By Default, Lands Huge Folios With Linux 7.2 Linux 7.2 …
… New NTFS Driver Sees Hardening & Fixes, Windows Native Symlinks With Linux 7.2 EXT4 Reworks Fast Commit Handling & Faster Directory Hash Computation Bcachefs Tools 1.38.6 Brings Many Performance Improvements IO uring, NVMe & Other Block + Device Mapper Changes Merged For Linux 7.2 Linux Enacts Guid…
… More details on these now-merged EROFS file-system updates for Linux 7.2 via this pull request . exFAT File-System Enjoys Better Performance On Linux 7.2 With IOmap Conversion New NTFS Driver Sees Hardening & Fixes, Windows Native Symlinks With Linux 7.2 EXT4 Reworks Fast Commit Handling & Faster D…
… MORE CONTEXT Systemd 260 kills SysV, tells AI not to misbehave Linux Foundation kicks off effort to shield FOSS maintainers from AI slop bug reports Bcachefs creator insists his custom LLM is female and 'fully conscious' Godot maintainers struggle with 'draining and demoralizing' AI slop submission… …
… CachyOS Introduces New Default GUI Package Manager, Kyber For NVMe I/O Scheduler CachyOS Rolls Out A Super-Charged Linux 7.0 Kernel Arch Linux's Archinstall 4.2 Fixes Botched Disk Encryption Security Archinstall 4.0 Released For Improved Arch Linux Installer Using Textual UI EndeavourOS Titan Relea…
… More details on the shiny new Archinstall 4.0 release via GitHub Manjaro 26.1 Preview Released With GNOME 50, KDE Plasma 6.6 & Xfce 4.20 Options CachyOS Introduces New Default GUI Package Manager, Kyber For NVMe I/O Scheduler CachyOS Rolls Out A Super-Charged Linux 7.0 Kernel Arch Linux's Archinsta…
