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You're interested in more detailed information about bcachefs I highly recommend checking out bcachefs: Principles of Operation.[0]

Also, the original developer of bcachefs (as well as bcache), Kent Overstreet posts status updates from time to time on his Patreon page.[1]

[0] https://bcachefs.org/bcachefs-principles-of-operation.pdf

[1] https://www.patreon.com/bcachefs




Thanks for the links!

I was wondering if bcachefs is architectured with NAND-flash SSD hardware in mind (as recently highlighted on HN in the "Is Sequential IO Dead In The Era Of The NVMe Drive" article [1] [2]), to optimize IO and hardware lifecycle.

Skimming through the "bcachefs: Principles Of Operation" PDF, it appears the answer is no.

[1] https://jack-vanlightly.com/blog/2023/5/9/is-sequential-io-d...

[2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35878961


It is. There's also plans for ZNS SSD support.


I would listen to what this guy has to say. It looks like he knows something.


Interesting that internally it’s much closer to a database than file systems generally are.




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