Running the Bcachefs DKMS Modules on Ubuntu Linux
15 hours ago
- #DKMS
- #Linux
- #Bcachefs
- DKMS packages for Bcachefs are now available for Ubuntu and Debian, simplifying the use of the latest out-of-tree Bcachefs file-system driver.
- Kent Overstreet, the lead developer of Bcachefs, maintains DKMS packages for Debian/Ubuntu, ensuring easy installation of the latest Bcachefs kernel modules and user-space tools.
- The setup process for Bcachefs on Ubuntu is straightforward, as demonstrated by testing on Ubuntu 25.10 with the Linux 6.17 kernel.
- Performance benchmarks compare the current Bcachefs DKMS state with Linux 6.17, testing against Btrfs, EXT4, F2FS, OpenZFS, and XFS on a Crucial T705 1TB PCIe Gen5 NVMe SSD.