[$] Discussing a rewrite of XArray

T1Covered by 1 source · first reported by LWN.net at 20 Oct, 15:46 UTC

The work to support block sizes larger than the page size on XFS has been difficult. Many users of XFS run stable kernels, which means that they aren't testing new XFS code as it is released. That has made Daniel Gomez wonder whether adopting Rust for some of the data structures underlying XFS…