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Bcachefs may be headed out of the kernel

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144 points ksec | 1 comments | 04 Jul 25 13:32 UTC | HN request time: 0.344s | source
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msgodel ◴[04 Jul 25 17:53 UTC] No.44466535[source]▶
The older I get the more I feel like anything other than the ExtantFS family is just silly.

The filesystem should do files, if you want something more complex do it in userspace. We even have FUSE if you want to use the Filesystem API with your crazy network database thing.

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yjftsjthsd-h ◴[04 Jul 25 18:42 UTC] No.44466895[source]▶
I mean, I'd really like some sort of data error detection (and ideally correction). If a disk bitflips one of my files, ext* won't do anything about it.
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1. msgodel ◴[05 Jul 25 00:41 UTC] No.44469211[source]▶
Anything important should be really be stored in some sort of distributed system that uses eg merkle trees. If the file system also did that you'd be doing it twice which would be annoying.

Anything unimportant is really just being cached and it's probably fine if it gets corrupted.