[ANNOUNCE] bcachefs!
[Posted August 24, 2015 by corbet]
| From: |
| Kent Overstreet <kent.overstreet-AT-gmail.com> |
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| linux-bcache-AT-vger.kernel.org |
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| [ANNOUNCE] bcachefs! |
| Date: |
| Mon, 13 Jul 2015 17:58:25 -0700 |
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| <20150714005825.GA24027@kmo-pixel> |
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| sviatoslavpestov-AT-gmail.com, mrubin-AT-google.com, adam.berkan-AT-gmail.com, zab-AT-zabbo.net, rickyb-AT-google.com |
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Short announcement, because I'm in the process of moving - but I wanted to get
this out there because the code is up and I think it's reasonably stable right
now.
Bcachefs is a posix filesystem that I've been working towards for - well, quite
awhile now: it's intended as a competitor/replacement for ext4/xfs/btrfs.
Current features
- multiple devices
- replication
- tiering
- data checksumming and compression (zlib only; also the code doesn't work with
tiering yet)
- most of the normal posix fs features (no fallocate or quotas yet)
Planned features:
- snapshots!
- erasure coding
- more
There will be a longer announcement on LKML/linux-fs in the near future (after
I'm finished moving) - but I'd like to get it a bit more testing from a wider
audience first, if possible.
You need the bcache-dev branch, and the new bcache tools - be warned, this code
is _not_ compatible with the upstream bcache on disk format:
$ git clone -b bcache-dev http://evilpiepirate.org/git/linux-bcache.git
$ git clone -b dev http://evilpiepirate.org/git/bcache-tools.git
Then do the usual compiling...
# bcacheadm format -C /dev/sda1
# mount /dev/sda1 /mnt
The usual caveats apply - it might eat your data, the on disk format has _not_
been stabilized yet, etc. But it's been reasonably stable for me, and passes all
but 2-3 of the supported xfstests.
Try it out and let me know how it goes!
Also, programmers please check out the bcache guide - feedback is appreciated:
http://bcache.evilpiepirate.org/BcacheGuide/
Thanks!