Re: Using bcachefs on the Hurd

[Kent Overstreet]

On Thu, Sep 21, 2023 at 03:14:31PM +0000, jbranso@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.