Introduction & background information NOTE: This content is from an internal talk I gave, thus the reason it may read like a presentation
So what is bcachefs? bcachefs is a next-generation copy-on-write (COW) filesystem (FS) that aims to provide features similar to Btrfs and ZFS, written by Kent Overstreet
Copy-on-write (COW), with goal of performance being better than other COW filesystems Full checksums on everything Mult-device, replication , RAID, Caching, Compression, Encryption Sub-volumes, snapshots Scalable, 50+ TB tested Why the need for another FS?