September 25, 2023 12:45 AM, "Kent Overstreet" <kent.overstr...@linux.dev> wrote:
> 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. Sure that sounds like boat loads of fun! I'm on Eastern standard time. And I am normally free in the mornings. Monday - Friday. May we make this a conference call and invite other Hurd developers to join in? It will probably be a better discussion, if we do that. >> 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. Interesting. Sounds like it will be a fun discussion! Joshua
