For Linux, It’s Another Day, Another File System

Posted by brideoflinux on Aug 26, 2015 8:48 AM EDT
FOSS Force; By Larry Cafiero
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In case you weren’t paying attention, there’s a new Linux file system on the horizon, thanks to a former Google engineer.

That engineer in question, namely Kent Overstreet, posted a message on LKML.org last week promoting the progress of Bcache File System, or Bcachefs, the first Linux file system written specifically for solid state disks. The purpose of the new file system is to ramp up the speed in the way Linux stores data on servers.

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