The next kernel will have no new bcachefs code – and the openSUSE versions that use that kernel are going further still.

The maintainers of openSUSE have made a decision over the future of the radical new bcachefs filesystem when openSUSE's distros are concerned: to disable it .

As we discussed in mid-August , the end of the battle between Linux paramount penguin Linus Torvalds and bcachefs boffin Kent Overstreet came to an unhappy conclusion. At the end of August, Torvalds announced that from now on, bcachefs is "externally maintained." As LWN summarized it , this means the new filesystem won't be developed as part of the main Linux kernel tree – but it hasn't been totally removed.

OpenSUSE, however, is going further: it will elimiate the new filesystem from its kernel builds. Jiří Sla

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