What ever happened to chunkfs?

Guest author Valerie Aurora is frequently asked about chunkfs, which is a prototype file system implementing "repair-driven" file system features. Her answer: "Chunkfs works, the overhead is reasonable, and it is only practical if it is part of the file system design from the beginning, not tacked on after the fact. I just need to write up the paper summarizing all the data." That paper is now available, subscribers only, from this week's Kernel page.

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