Bcachefs: Upstreaming, growing the team, and a funding situation update

Re:Bcachefs: Upstreaming, growing the team, and a funding si... by xedrac on Friday September 22, 2023 @11:48PM (#37620440)

I know Bcachefs is nearing its big merge into mainline Linux, but I wonder if the current state of Rust support in the kernel would allow for something like Bcachefs to be written. I know I can write a driver in Rust, but could I write a filesystem in Rust?

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Re:Bcachefs: Upstreaming, growing the team, and a funding si... by Vecr on Saturday September 23, 2023 @01:40AM (#37620832)

https://www.phoronix.com/news/PuzzleFS-Development-Continues

The Linux kernel Rust support is not good enough currently for it to work though.

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Re:Bcachefs: Upstreaming, growing the team, and a funding si... by xedrac on Saturday September 23, 2023 @05:26PM (#37627709)

> Currently, puzzlefs is implemented as a userspace filesystem (FUSE). A read-only kernel filesystem driver is underway.

Ahh interesting. I hadn't heard of PuzzleFS, but it sounds like they are anticipating Rust support will become good enough. Neat!

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