This is the third post in this little series about bcachefs. The first post was all about the basics while the second post introduced bcachefs over multiple devices. What we did not discuss so far is, what bcache has to offer when it comes to mirroring. By default bcachefs stripes your data across all the devices in the file systems.…
In the last post, we’ve looked at the very basics when it comes to bcachefs, a new file system which was added to the Linux kernel starting from version 6.7. While we’ve already seen how easy it is to create a new file system using a single device, encrypt and/or compress it and that check summing of meta data and…
When Linux 6.7 (already end of life) was released some time ago another file system made it into the kernel: bcachefs. This is another copy on write file system like ZFS or Btrfs. The goal of this post is not to compare those in regards to features and performance, but just to give you the necessary bits to get started…
