GEFS
No written verdict yet. Here is what commenters said.
Why people recommend it
“I also love the title for this talk about it:”
“GeFS is in the works. I hope it gets into the tree some day”
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“Corruption Detection and Crash Safety will be more than welcomed here.”
“it's good enough to compete with ZFS while being way smaller and permissively licensed”
“tons of weird 9front new tools such as the GeFS filesystem”
Caveats and dissent
No one in these comments warned against it.
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Who recommends it in their own words
From the makers not counted in the ranking
> […] but I also want to explore what adding trim-style feedback to a generic RAID layer may look like […] TRIM commands sent to the block layer would probably help with SSD/NVMe wear leveling, as well as thin-provisioning in virtualized environments. And the lack of RAID is not a critique: if you're mostly interested in the file system layer that's fine, and a useful area to solve problems in. My comment was more to
Threads where it came up
- GEFS on OpenBSD: A Early Preview 3 mentions
- OpenBSD 8.0 2 mentions
- Hackers (1995) Animated Experience 1 mention
- 9front OS 1 mention
Also written as GeFS, gefs. Data: gefs.json. Quotes are verbatim; the verdict and theme labels are written by a model from these comments, and every clause links to its sources.
All comments 6
“I also love the title for this talk about it:”
“GeFS is in the works. I hope it gets into the tree some day”
“Corruption Detection and Crash Safety will be more than welcomed here.”
“it's good enough to compete with ZFS while being way smaller and permissively licensed”
“tons of weird 9front new tools such as the GeFS filesystem”
“The snapshot system in gefs is really quite nice.”