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Bcachefs

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.

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Attributes
Extended attributes
Bad blocks
None recorded
Copy-on-write
Yes
Dates recorded
modification (mtime), attribute modification (ctime), access (atime), create (crtime)
Developer
Kent Overstreet
Directory contents
Hybrid B+ tree

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Bcachefs

Nodes34
Edges33
Triples55
Avg. degree1.94
Density0.058824
Components1

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Bcachefs

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related to Features · 15
Bcachefs → As, Bcache, ChaCha20, COW, CRC-32C, December, Earlier, Features, It, Linux, Linux-based, LZ4, Poly1305, RAID, Zstandard
related to history · 15
Bcachefs → After, As, Bcache, Btrfs, Google, He, Kent Overstreet, Linux, Overstreet, Patreon, POSIX, Primary, Some, XFS, ZFS
related to Stability · 9
Bcachefs → April, August, Debian, I'd, In August, Linus Torvalds, Linux, The, When
Attributes · 1
Bcachefs → Extended attributes
Bad blocks · 1
Bcachefs → None recorded
Copy-on-write · 1
Bcachefs → Yes
Dates recorded · 1
Bcachefs → modification (mtime), attribute modification (ctime), access (atime), create (crtime)
Developer · 1
Bcachefs → Kent Overstreet
Directory contents · 1
Bcachefs → Hybrid B+ tree
File allocation · 1
Bcachefs → Extents

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linux kernel overstreet 2025 development announced torvalds features file system systems bcache 2024 linus copy-on-write cow august code version operating

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SubjectPredicateObjectConfidenceSrc
BcachefsAttributesExtended attributes1.00infobox
BcachefsBad blocksNone recorded1.00infobox
BcachefsCopy-on-writeYes1.00infobox
BcachefsDates recordedmodification (mtime), attribute modification (ctime), access (atime), create (crtime)1.00infobox
BcachefsDeveloperKent Overstreet1.00infobox
BcachefsDirectory contentsHybrid B+ tree1.00infobox
BcachefsFile allocationExtents1.00infobox
BcachefsFile system permissionsPOSIX (+ ACL in xattrs)1.00infobox
BcachefsIntroduced21 August 2015; 11 years ago (2015-08-21)1.00infobox
BcachefsSupported operating systemsLinux1.00infobox
BcachefsTransparent compressionYes1.00infobox
BcachefsTransparent encryptionYes1.00infobox
BcachefsWebsitebcachefs.org1.00infobox
Bcachefsis acopy-on-write0.90text

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