Re: Using bcachefs on the Hurd

[jbranso]

September 26, 2023 5:59 AM, "Sergey Bugaev" <bugaevc@gmail.com> wrote:

> Hello,
> 
> 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.
> 
> If you're doing this, I'd like to participate, if that'd be OK. (I am
> an occasional Hurd contributor.) Not expecting to add a lot to the
> discussion since I'm not really a file systems developer, but maybe
> some of my Hurd knowledge will be useful.

Sergey I believe you are severely underselling yourself! :) Your recent
glibc contributions have gotten the Hurd a 64-bit port! And you uncovered
some severe security issues with the Hurd. You are a significant and
competent contributer to the Hurd!  You also really encourage me to make
Hurd videos, which I greatly appreciate.  I'm glad we're friends.  :)

> Samuel won't be able to make it, unfortunately.
> 
>> 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.
> 
> Any of those days would work for me, and morning EST also sounds good.
> Which software are you going to use?
> 
> Nervously looking forward to it,
> Sergey

How about we meet at 11am EST Friday September 29th?  I would like to
record the conference call. If everyone is ok with it, we could put the video on
my peertube account (maybe youtube later) and encourage people to donate to 
Kent's 
patreon. Sound good to everyone?

I was planning on using jitsi for the conference call, but it seems like the
FSF's jitsi is NOT working.   I will ask some of my guix friends if they have
access to a big blue button account. If anyone else has any ideas, please let 
me know. Maybe we could use bbb.sfconservancy.org.  Anyone there a member?

Here's a list of potential questions (feel free to add or remove some):

1) What sort of help do you need to see bcachefs merged into Linux?
   We can encourage people to donate to Kent's patreon here.

2) What's bcachefs' FUSE status?  Does it work well?

3) The Hurd does have a somewhat working FUSE port.  How portable is bcachefs?

4) What can the Hurd's filesystems learn from Linux's filesystems?

5) What licensing issues are there in porting bcachefs to the Hurd?  

6) Kent why are you so sold on Rust?  What's wrong with C?

7) Kent, how does one become a good filesystem developer?


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