Kent Overstreet has released Bcachefs 1.37.0, a file system release consisting of two packages. The first package, bcachefs-kernel-dkms, includes a kernel module built using the Dynamic Kernel Module Support (DKMS) system. The second package, bcachefs-tools, contains the bcachefs utility running in user space, allowing users to create (mkfs), mount, restore, and check the file system. These packages are available for Debian, Ubuntu, Fedora, openSUSE, NixOS, and Arch Linux. The DKMS module is compatible with Linux kernels from version 6.16 onwards.
The new version of Bcachefs includes several key updates:
- Support for error correction codes, similar to RAID 5/6, allowing damaged data recovery. The implementation is based on Reed-Solomon coding, capable of correcting up to N errors in a stripe
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