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Comment by pdimitar

5 days ago

FYI: the main reason I gave up on bcachefs is that I can't use devices with native 16K blocks.

Hope that's coming this year. I have a bunch of old HDDs and SSDs and I could very easily assemble a spare storage server with about 4TB capacity. Already tested bcachefs with most of the drives and it performed very well.

Also lack of ability to reconstruct seems like another worrying omission.

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koverstreet  5 days ago

I wasn't aware there were actual users needing bs > ps yet. Cool :)

That should be a completely trivial for bcachefs to support, it'll mostly just be a matter of finding or writing the tests.

  • pdimitar  5 days ago

    Seriously? But... NVMe drives! I stopped testing because I only have one spare NVMe and couldn't use it with bcachefs.

    If you or others can get it done I'm absolutely starting to use bcachefs the month after. I do need fast storage servers in my home office.