On Thu, Sep 21, 2023 at 03:14:31PM +0000, jbra...@dismail.de wrote: > Hey Kent and Dave! > > Kent, congrats on getting bcachefs into Linux-next! That's pretty > awesome. I think you have bcachefs working via FUSE right? Does it > work well on FUSE? > > Dave I am emailing you as well, because Kent seems to think that you > are a seriously good filesystem developer yourself. Is it ok if I pick > your brain a little bit too? > > It seems to me that Kent and Dave are probably on the leading edge for > filesystem implementation/research and sheer determination! Do you > think we could use bcachefs (or XFS) on the Hurd (we have a somewhat > working FUSE implementation)? What sort of advice would you give the > Hurd people for improving our current filesystem (The hurd uses ext2).
I've started on a fuse port for bcachefs - if you're interested, I'd happy to spend some time looking at it with you and sketching out what needs to be done next. > Also, I know that Kent really likes rust. Would you recommend new > filesystems to use rust? We actually just got rust ported to the Hurd! Yes, I would. Rust, along with Cap'n proto, is going to change how persistent data structures and filesystems are developed in the future.
