Re: Using bcachefs on the Hurd

[jbranso]

September 25, 2023 12:45 AM, "Kent Overstreet" <kent.overstreet@linux.dev> 
wrote:

> 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.

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