WinBtrfs – an open-source btrfs driver for Windows

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  • btrfs

    WinBtrfs - an open-source btrfs driver for Windows

  • That's not quite right. Linux btrfs supports raid5 in general, but has known edge cases which make it not safe to use. Basically it's "available, but experimental, for developers only".

    Winbtrfs only says the raid5 mode is one of the features, but doesn't really address how well it works. The questions in a related issue (https://github.com/maharmstone/btrfs/issues/293) have been closed without real answers. I wouldn't risk raid 5/6 on it without getting good answers about the status / testing from the developers first.

  • quibble

    Quibble - the custom Windows bootloader

  • Not in its own. You also need a different boot loader. The author has an implementation called Quibble [0] that also supports btrfs.

    [0] https://github.com/maharmstone/quibble

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  • aioquic

    QUIC and HTTP/3 implementation in Python

  • One of the interesting patterns happening in Rust is io-less libraries. I'm not sure where best to link this phenomenon. It here s a open issue for an io-less quic library, from 2019, https://github.com/aiortc/aioquic/issues/4

    It'd be so fracking sweet to see filesystems follow this pattern. If we could re-use the file system logic, but apply it to windows or fuse or Linux or wasm linearly-addressed-storage, that would allow such intensely cool forms of portability/reuse & bending/hacking.

  • k8s-openapi

    Rust definitions of the resource types in the Kubernetes client API

  • It's called sans-io in Python land, which is where I heard it first.

    https://sans-io.readthedocs.io/

    I did it for one of my projects back in 2018 https://github.com/Arnavion/k8s-openapi/commit/9a4fbb718b119...

  • openzfs

    OpenZFS on Linux and FreeBSD

  • Heads up, installing both WinBTRFS and OpenZFS on Windows may have problems:

    "Win OpenZFS driver and WinBtrfs driver dont play well with each other"

    https://github.com/openzfsonwindows/openzfs/issues/364

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