On Wed, Aug 03, 2016 at 05:30:02PM -0700, Eric Wheeler wrote:

Hey Kent,

I noticed that blockdev.c got an overhaul in bcache-dev recently.  Getting 
closer to blockdev export from bcachefs?

No, not really. I've actually hardly touched that stuff - to the extent that I
have I've just been fixing a few random bugs here and there to get the old style
bcache functionality closer to working again.

Actually it looks like you've been pretty busy on that branch in general.  

What's new?  

Oh, random stuff. I've been posting some on patreon lately:
https://www.patreon.com/bcachefs

(And yes, I do need money if anyone would be willing to chip in).

The main user visible thing is compression is finally useful - I finally
finished the disk accounting stuff so that enabling compression actually lets
you store more data on a fs.

Besides that, it's mainly been bug fixing and internal refactoring working
towards snapshots. I'm gonna write something up about the plan for snapshots
soon.