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Btrfs/ZFS/bcachefs under workloads classic benchmarks skip

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  1. skerit · · focus · HN ↗
    Oh, so bcachefs is doing pretty well.
    1. tarruda · · focus · HN ↗
      Except for the fact that the developer has sabotaged the project into being removed from mainline?
      1. tombert · · focus · HN ↗
        It's relatively easy to get it working as a kernel module at least. I got it set up on a NixOS box without too much trouble.
        1. petre · · focus · HN ↗
          Not something I'd want to do with my filesystem though. ZFS is different story it it isn't on the root fs because it might be packaged by the distribution.
          1. nikisweeting · · focus · HN ↗
            there are tricks to avoid needing distro support &#x2F; kernel modules for ZFS: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;pirate&#x2F;zfsbox" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;pirate&#x2F;zfsbox

            also tricks to make it easy to convert a root FS to ZFS now that Ubuntu Server 24.04 added native root-on-zfs support: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;pirate&#x2F;zfsify" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;pirate&#x2F;zfsify

            1. tombert · · focus · HN ↗
              I hadn&#x27;t heard of zfsify, but I think I&#x27;ll check it out on yet another old laptop running ext4.
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