Re: Using bcachefs on the Hurd

[Kent Overstreet]

On Mon, Sep 25, 2023 at 02:31:48PM +0000, jbranso@dismail.de wrote:
> 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.  

Sure. If you want to set something up this week I can make some time,
anywhere between Wednesday and Friday - after that I'll be pretty busy
for the next few weeks.