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bcachefs? (self.linux)

submitted 10 months ago by actual_patience to c/linux

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I was wondering if anyone here has attempted the new "COW filesystem for Linux that won't eat your data".

It's supposedly has been stable since the start of 2023. I'm willing to give it a try on Arch, but before I do, I'd like to hear if anyone has faced any issues with it.

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[–] actual_patience 7 points 10 months ago (2 children)

From what I understand:

it has all btrfs features
it's as performant as ext4 (with COW enabled)
it's more stable than btrfs
it has built-in encryption, (no LUKS needed)

The page in Gentoo explains it's features well

[–] technom 9 points 10 months ago

It's still missing the send and receive features from btrfs. And while they say it's more stable than btrfs, it's yet to prove itself (through widespread use), and is marked as experimental in the kernel config.

[–] DeprecatedCompatV2 3 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (1 children)

I recall snapshots not being quite as cheap as on ZFS.

[–] technom 1 points 10 months ago

Is there an article I can refer to? This isn't an easy topic to search for.