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Bcachefs Lands More Fixes Ahead Of Linux 6.16-rc7

Written by Michael Larabel in Linux Storage on 18 July 2025 at 04:44 PM EDT. 16 Comments
As we await to see what Linus Torvalds will end up doing about the Bcachefs file-system come Linux 6.17, for the ongoing Linux 6.16 cycle he continues to honor the Bcachefs pull requests containing fixes.

Merged today to the Linux Git kernel ahead of the Linux 6.16-rc7 release this coming Sunday is the newest batch of fixes for this experimental copy-on-write file-system.

This week's Bcachefs fixes include:
" - two small syzbot fixes

- fix discard behaviour regression; we no longer wait until the number of buckets needing discard is greater than the number of buckets available before kicking off discards

- fix a fast_list leak when async object debugging is enabled

- fixes for casefolding when CONFIG_UTF8 != y"

More details within the Git merge. Torvalds once again honored the Bcachefs fixes pull request but so far hasn't publicly elaborated about whether Bcachefs will be removed in Linux 6.17 or if it will perhaps be guarded by the "BROKEN" Kconfig option or what he plans to do stemming from his earlier comments that they would be "parting ways" between Bcachefs and the mainline kernel.

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