mergerfs mentioned in new paper on ExtFuse
Added 2019-07-11 11:06:47 +0000 UTChttps://www.usenix.org/conference/atc19/presentation/bijlani
Ashish Bijlani and Umakishore Ramachandran of Georgia Institute of Technology have been working on an extension to FUSE to allow using eBPF which can help move some of the high latency logic that often slows down a FUSE based filesystem into the kernel and thereby improving performance.
I'm still digging into the paper and code but it looks to be in the proof of concept phase. Should it be incorporated into the mainline kernel I'll certainly support it.
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We'll see if the feature ever gets upstreamed. It seems like a reasonable solution to some of the problems. The FUSE protocol could certainly be improved in bespoke ways but this might be a more generic and flexible solution.
trapexit
2019-07-12 11:37:15 +0000 UTCThat's a really good news!
Mikhail Gorodetskiy
2019-07-12 07:23:23 +0000 UTC
