Linux 7.3 Looks Like It Will Upstream FailFS
Linux 7.3 Looks Like It Will Upstream FailFS Written by Michael Larabel in Linux Storage on 3 August 2026 at 02:46 PM EDT. Add A Comment Merged back in Linux 7.3 was NULLFS as a "completely catatonic minimal pseudo filesystem". Now expected for Linux 7.3 is its sibling: FailFS.
- ▪Linux 7.3 Looks Like It Will Upstream FailFS Written by Michael Larabel in Linux Storage on 3 August 2026 at 02:46 PM EDT.
- ▪Add A Comment Merged back in Linux 7.3 was NULLFS as a "completely catatonic minimal pseudo filesystem".
- ▪Now expected for Linux 7.3 is its sibling: FailFS.
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Linux 7.3 Looks Like It Will Upstream FailFS Written by Michael Larabel in Linux Storage on 3 August 2026 at 02:46 PM EDT. Add A Comment Merged back in Linux 7.3 was NULLFS as a "completely catatonic minimal pseudo filesystem". Now expected for Linux 7.3 is its sibling: FailFS. NULLFS is providing a permanently empty and immutable directory where lookups fail with ENOENT as the error code for no such file/directory. With the forthcoming FailFS, every operation reaching the filesystem returns EOPNOTSUPP, the Linux error code for operation not supported.
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