Bcachefs Tools 1.38.6 Brings Many Performance Improvements
Summary
Phoronix reports on Bcachefs-Tools 1.38.6, highlighting significant performance-focused improvements without on-disk format changes. The release expands device support to 255 per file-system, adds Ubuntu 26.04 LTS packaging for testing, and optimizes journaling, locking, and btree operations to reduce contention and improve multi-threaded workloads.