# The People's Filesystem

URL: /show/linux-unplugged/644/
> Kent Overstreet joins us for a full update on bcachefs. What's new, what's next, and the surprising upside of getting kicked out of the kernel.

- Show: [LINUX Unplugged](/show/linux-unplugged/)
- Episode: 644
- Date: 2025-12-07
- Hosts: brent, chris, wes
- Guests: kent-overstreet
- Duration: 01:24:23
- Audio: https://aphid.fireside.fm/d/1437767933/f31a453c-fa15-491f-8618-3f71f1d565e5/82e974c1-39bc-4a36-b555-de0d5cc4271a.mp3


Transcripts: [text/vtt](https://feeds.jupiterbroadcasting.com/transcripts/lup/82e974c1-39bc-4a36-b555-de0d5cc4271a.vtt) [application/x-subrip](https://feeds.jupiterbroadcasting.com/transcripts/lup/82e974c1-39bc-4a36-b555-de0d5cc4271a.srt)


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### Episode Links

* [💥 Gets Sats Quick and Easy with Strike](https://strike.me/ "💥 Gets Sats Quick and Easy with Strike")
* [📻 LINUX Unplugged on Fountain.FM](https://www.fountain.fm/show/dWiuBeqpDSM86AwXRXov "📻 LINUX Unplugged  on Fountain.FM")
* [LUP's Great Holiday Homelab Form](https://linuxunplugged.com/holiday "LUP's Great Holiday Homelab Form")
* [LUP's Great Holiday Homelab Old Fart Form (markdown)](https://linuxunplugged.com/oldfart "LUP's Great Holiday Homelab Old Fart Form \(markdown\)")
* [bcachefs 1.33.0](https://lore.kernel.org/linux-bcachefs/slvis5ybvo7ch3vxh5yb6turapyq7hai2tddwjriicfxqivnpn@xdpb25wey5xd/ "bcachefs 1.33.0")
* [Bcachefs Ready With Its Reconcile Feature As Biggest Change In Two Years](https://www.phoronix.com/news/Bcachefs-Reconcile-Ready "Bcachefs Ready With Its Reconcile Feature As Biggest Change In Two Years") — "Biggest new feature in the past ~2 years, I believe. The user facing stuff may be short and sweet - but so much going on under the hood to make all this smooth and polished."
* [Kent Overstreet - Patreon](https://www.patreon.com/bcachefs "Kent Overstreet - Patreon")
* [bcachefs](https://bcachefs.org/ "bcachefs") — A copy-on-write (COW) file system for Linux first announced by Kent Overstreet in 2015. It is intended to compete with the modern features of ZFS or Btrfs.
* [LINUX Unplugged 545: 3,062 Days Later](https://linuxunplugged.com/545 "LINUX Unplugged 545: 3,062 Days Later") — Kent Overstreet, the creator of bcachefs, helps us understand where his new filesystem fits, what it's like to upstream a new filesystem, and how they've solved the RAID write hole.
* [Git or not a Git man page?](https://git-man-page-generator.lokaltog.net/ "Git or not a Git man page?")
* [proxmox-nixos: The Proxmox Hypervisor, on NixOS](https://github.com/SaumonNet/proxmox-nixos "proxmox-nixos: The Proxmox Hypervisor, on NixOS")
* [Pick: Dotfiles Installer](https://flathub.org/en/apps/com.ml4w.dotfilesinstaller "Pick: Dotfiles Installer") — Install dotfiles easy, fast and secure. Or provide an installation application for your dotfiles.
* [ML4W Dotfiles Installer Wiki](https://mylinuxforwork.github.io/dotfiles-installer/ "ML4W Dotfiles Installer Wiki")
* [dotfiles-installer: GitHub](https://github.com/mylinuxforwork/dotfiles-installer "dotfiles-installer: GitHub")
* [Pick: SSH-Studio](https://github.com/BuddySirJava/SSH-Studio?tab=readme-ov-file "Pick: SSH-Studio") — Easy, GUI SSH config editor and validator built with Python, GTK 4 and libadwaita.
* [LubeLogger, Vehicle Maintenance and Fuel Mileage Tracker, slips into December with some banging new features](https://www.reddit.com/r/selfhosted/comments/1pbhuyj/lubelogger_vehicle_maintenance_and_fuel_mileage/ "LubeLogger, Vehicle Maintenance and Fuel Mileage Tracker, slips into December with some banging new features")