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GEFS, the "Good Enough File System" on the horizon for OpenBSD (undeadly.org)

submitted 1 day ago by cm0002@suppo.fi to c/openbsd@lemmy.sdf.org

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Filesystems on OpenBSD have come in two varieties, UFS1 or UFS2. Ori Bernstein has set out to possibly introduce a new option, the "Good Enough File System", which Ori describes as

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[–] jodanlime@midwest.social 2 points 14 hours ago

Exciting. I'm using GEFS on my latest 9front server and it's given me no issues so far!

[–] EmK@lemmy.ca 6 points 1 day ago

This is such a bright spot in tech right now. I would LOVE to have a resilient file system for OBSD. It would open it up to so many more use cases for me.

[–] sinza@piefed.social 3 points 1 day ago

I should watch the whole presentation when I can.

If OpenBSD were to do this, OpenBSD would be the perfect server operating system for self-hosting internet-facing services.