The decisive breakdown came during the 6.16 / 6.17 development cycle. The bcachefs lead submitted a major patch (called journal_rewind) late in the merge window—an addition rather than mere bug fixes.

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Linus Torvalds finally tagged and pushed out the first release candidate (RC1) of the upcoming Linux Kernel version 6.18.

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The Bcachefs file system recently hit a major milestone, but not the one developers hoped for. Linus Torvalds officially removed the core Bcachefs code from the main Linux kernel tree. This definitive ...

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