What are some exciting projects that you follow and hope to see progress on?
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- Wayland greeter on SDDM
- rust support on gcc
- more Wayland adoption (especially VSCodium & Firefox forks)
- Reproducible Build
- ReactOS
What are some exciting projects that you follow and hope to see progress on?
I’ll start!
It is coming in 6.7, I think. What are the advantages of bcachefs over something like ext4 or btrfs?
All the advantages of btrfs + the ability to combine SSDs and HDDs in a way that maximizes speed and space.
So it’s kind of like RAID?
It has RAID modes and it intelligently rearranges data s.t. commonly used files are stored in a fast drive and fetched from there, whereas BTRFS will write to and read from a “random” drive regardless of its speed.
The previous solution of using btrfs raid1 + bcache (not the FS) separately was very wasteful because the cache had to store both/all copies of the data since btrfs picks a random drive to read from.
Does it provide any advantages for home users? I can see how this could be useful in enterprise settings, but does it benefit regular desktop users?
Isn’t that what I’m already doing with standard bcache + btrfs?