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We've heard that a disk is a "bunch of bits", so let's get dirty and personal with those bits.

The bcachefs filesystem, and the process for getting it upstream, were the topics of a session led remotely by Kent Overstreet, creator of bcachefs, at the 2023 Linux Storage, Filesystem, Memory-Management and BPF Summit. He has also discussed bcachefs in previous editions of the summit, first in 2018 and at last years event; in both of those cases, the question of getting bcachefs merged into the mainline kernel came up, but that merge has not happened yet. This time around, though, Overstr...