What does HackerNews think of tfs?

Not exactly ZFS in Rust, but more like a replacement for ZFS in Rust: https://github.com/redox-os/tfs

Worked stalled, though. Not compatible, but I was working on overlayfs for freebsd in rust, and it was not pleasant at all. Can't imagine making an entire "real" file system in Rust.

And for code there is TFS https://github.com/redox-os/tfs

Thanks for the link. Interesting it looks like Redox is writing their own filesystem or at least reimplementing ZFS:

https://github.com/redox-os/tfs

I wonder how that effects the time horizon for maturity. I've always just assumed that a filesystem takes a good 10 years to be really stable. Maybe my assumptions are way off? Or the facts that its a reimplementation makes that matter much less? Didn't it take BTRFS around this length of be considered production stable?

I don't agree with the notion that software has to be finished to be good (which isn't exactly what you said but the implication seems to be there). Taken literally, software that is unfinished (i.e. unusable) cannot possibly be good, obviously, but software that was been theorized but didn't necessarily exist in finished form until relatively recently is pretty common. If you don't want to make a bundled mess of spaghetti design, theory/play/experimentation that doesn't necessarily turn into a functioning project is crucial, ideas are sometimes reused/refactored into a project that is completed.

Maybe if none of his work was actually published at all, then that statement would make sense (since it would literally be impossible to derive value from something that doesn't exist), but he's contributed documentation, schematics, etc, it's vaporware in the sense that it isn't a finished product and may never actually become one since he's not supporting it anymore, but if someone else sees what he's done (ex. https://github.com/redox-os/tfs), they might pick it up and finish it. ATM there are 500+ commits to that project, I find it hard to believe that if what he was doing is worth doing that those commits are completely worthless.

Ticki was an active member of the Rust community, whose contribution was energetically and cheerfully campaigning for ambitious features. Sometimes perhaps a little too ambitious, but that's a useful kind of person to have in a community.

For example, Ticki wrote an early proposal for type-level integers, which everyone knows Rust needs eventually, but hadn't been able to work up a concrete proposal for:

https://github.com/ticki/rfcs/blob/pi-types/text/0000-pi-typ...

Outside the core project, Ticki was involved with RedoxOS, an OS written in Rust:

https://github.com/redox-os/redox#-ecosystem-

Particularly the TFS filesystem:

https://github.com/redox-os/tfs

TFS naver came to fruition, so RedoxOS still runs on its original filesystem, RedoxFS.

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