A little while ago, we talked about 9front’s Good Enough File System being ported to OpenBSD. A lot of progress has been made on this front lately. Aside from fixing bugs and porting over fixes from the 9front side, there’s also been a ton more substantial changes. Some userspace tools have been done (you can now mkfs on openbsd!), but snapshot control hasn’t. I’m thinking we have a userspace ‘gefs’ program that lets you handle this, trying to keep the interface similar to the 9front ctl file. ↫ Ori Bernstein There’s still some major hurdles to overcome, some of which have already been addressed on the 9front side, but the progress is clear. Considering OpenBSD desperately needs a more modern file system, this is great news. A fun sidenote is that I’m actually posting this news item from OpenBSD.
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