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by marco_craveiro 1665 days ago
Indeed, sounds very interesting. However, from their github [1]:

> NOTE: The BetrFS prototype currently only works on the 3.11.10 kernel.

This is a tad limiting, hopefully they will port it to latest...

[1] https://github.com/oscarlab/betrfs
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tyingq 1665 days ago
It's also currently stacked on top of ext4, and the tree data has to sit on some other filesystem as well. So promising design, but quite a long way from ready for production.
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klyrs 1665 days ago
Not only that, but they need some fun patches...

> Our design minimizes changes to the kernel. The current code requires a few kernel patches, such as enabling direct I/O from one file system to another. We expect to eliminate most of these patches in future versions.

I prefer half-baked projects that are honest about their status over overpromised vaporware, personally

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