openSUSE to Disable Bcachefs File System Support in Tumbleweed with Linux 6.17

Posted by hanuca on Sep 11, 2025 11:45 PM CST
9to5linux.com; By Marius Nestor
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In some controversial news, openSUSE announced that it plans to disable support for the Bcachefs file system in openSUSE Tumbleweed with the next major kernel update, Linux 6.17, due out in late September or early October 2025.

Starting with Linux kernel 6.17, Linus Torvalds changed the maintainer status of the Bcachefs file system from “supported” to “externally maintained” since Bcachefs is no longer supported by the core kernel team because the Bcachefs devs refuse to follow the standards and rules regarding bug fixes and kernel versions.

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