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by xedrac 1000 days ago
I know Bcachefs is nearing its big merge into mainline Linux, but I wonder if the current state of Rust support in the kernel would allow for something like Bcachefs to be written. I know I can write a driver in Rust, but could I write a filesystem in Rust?
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Vecr 1000 days ago
https://www.phoronix.com/news/PuzzleFS-Development-Continues

The Linux kernel Rust support is not good enough currently for it to work though.

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xedrac 999 days ago
> Currently, puzzlefs is implemented as a userspace filesystem (FUSE). A read-only kernel filesystem driver is underway.

Ahh interesting. I hadn't heard of PuzzleFS, but it sounds like they are anticipating Rust support will become good enough. Neat!

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