Bcachefs removed from the mainline kernel
LWN.net News from the source ContentWeekly EditionArchivesSearchKernelSecurityEvents calendarUnread commentsLWN FAQWrite for us User: Password: | | Subscribe / Log in / New account Bcachefs removed from the mainline kernel [Posted September 30, 2025 by corbet] After marking bcachefs “externally maintained” in 6.17, Linus Torvalds has removed it entirely for 6.18. “It’s now a DKMS module, making the in-kernel code stale, so remove it to avoid any version confusion.” to post comments Risks Posted Sep 30, 2025 10:30 UTC (Tue) by patrakov (subscriber, #97174) [Link] (1 responses) Before Bcachefs getting mainlined, one had to get the whole kernel source tree from the Bcachefs author. This happened because this filesystem relied on changes in…
