Testing needed

tuxayo

Isn't that bcache? which is different than bcachefs right?

Nope

I don't know about anyone else but I kinda need replication to be able to test this out in a useful way. I have plenty of data but it won't fit on a single disk and sharding it is a problem. I'll try out SnapRAID though just in case.

Nope

The maintainer is here, he made some commits 6 days ago so it seems to be active: <a href="https://github.com/alyptik/linux-bcache-git" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">https://github.com/alyptik/linux-bcache-git</a>

Kent Overstreet

I don't know who does that (it could be someone in the IRC channel though, I don't know or always remember everyone's name)

Patrik Nilsson

Quick question. Is this AUR PKGBUILD really affiliated with you? I see you listed there as a contributor. <a href="https://aur.archlinux.org/cgit/aur.git/tree/PKGBUILD?h=linux-bcache-git" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">https://aur.archlinux.org/cgit/aur.git/tree/PKGBUILD?h=linux-bcache-git</a> If that is the case, is it in any way relevant and/or helpful in the testing en-devour? It's mostly a question of time, and a ready to use PKGBUILD would save some valuable time in my case.

Dave494

I would be happy to test your filesystem in Ubuntu. PLEASE allow users of Ubuntu to choose your filesystem when installing Ubuntu, from the GUI option when manually partitioning. That way you can get many more people testing the file system under 'real world' conditions. Said this before, you've always had the choice of btrfs for years in the Ubuntu installer. I'm sure the Ubuntu team would happily include your file system amongst the other choices already there. I may (fingers crossed) obtain a laptop with bad sectors on the hard drive, this would make a great real-world 'stress test' for data checksumming and recovery - including encryption, what happens if the encrypted sector goes bad or the SSD cell goes awry, can it be detected and recovered automatically? Forgot to mention, it would be great to manage the file system online, like online partition resizing, avoids having to dismount the file system or booting from a live Linux disk, huge time saver!

Kent Overstreet

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Is there some basic documentation available on the testing framework? I have some spare VM resources.