BCacheFS is an awesome new Copy on Write (COW) filesystem created and developed by Kent Overstreet. This is a guide for installing bcachefs on Ubuntu. The filesystem has some useful features, including (from bcachefs.org): Copy on Write Full data and metadata checksumming multiple devices, including replication and other types of RAID Caching Compression Encryption Snapshots […]
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Mounting BCacheFS on Boot
BCacheFS is an exciting Copy on Write (COW) Linux filesystem that is being developed by Kent Overstreet. The filesystem is based on cache and is already feature-full, though it’s in the alpha stage. It has worked well for me, aside from one issue: how to go about mounting bcachefs on boot. I was able to […]

Compiling and Installing BCacheFS on Ubuntu 18.04
BCacheFS is an awesome new Copy on Write (COW) filesystem created and developed by Kent Overstreet. This is a guide for installing bcachefs on Ubuntu. The filesystem has some useful features, including (from bcachefs.org): Copy on Write Full data and metadata checksumming multiple devices, including replication and other types of RAID Caching Compression Encryption Snapshots […]

Re-Mounting Missing ESXi Datastore after iSCSI Failure
When an ESXi host occasionally becomes disconnected from a LUN, it can be a little frustrating to fix. Once the LUNs are recognized by ESXi, sometimes you will find that a datastore is missing. I’m partially posting this as a way to archive the fix for myself, but I hope it helps you too. The […]