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Bcachefs-tools 1.35 introduces significant improvements to the file system's user-space utilities. Key updates include removal of matched bucket size requirements for stripe members, stripe reshaping capabilities for better erasure coding failure handling, and parallel device evacuation with sorted reads for improved performance on rotating disks. The release fixes reconcile bugs affecting btree roots and cached data handling, resolves memory reclaim recursion issues, and corrects allocation watermark problems that caused deadlocks. Performance improvements include a new backpointer scan iterator and better handling of systems with metadata on rotating disks.

Bcachefs Ships Latest User-Space Utilities With bcachefs-tools 1.35