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It's not mainline yet but bcachefs[0][1][2] includes erasure coding as one of its defining features.

Maybe, if we're lucky, Kent Overstreet (koverstreet[3]) will magically appear and talk more on his latest creation.

[0] https://bcachefs.org/

[1] https://bcachefs.org/bcachefs-principles-of-operation.pdf

[2] https://www.patreon.com/bcachefs (de facto bcachefs development blog)

[3] https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=koverstreet




Oh, interesting! I still haven't played with bcachefs, so I didn't know you can do erasure coding replicas there. Although they says the implementation is still simple so it suffers from "write hole".


> Although they says the implementation is still simple so it suffers from "write hole".

That's what I was hoping Kent would show up and expand on. His March 29 update[0] says that erasure coding "has seen a lot of progress" which makes me hopeful.

[0] https://www.patreon.com/posts/your-irregular-80720060


I am very stoked for bcachefs to make it into the kernel.




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