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                                            Daniel Hill

readonly (-r) option for bcachefs subvolume snapshot -r ... does not make snapshot readonly

Yeah it's just not implemented yet.

Fuse / Non-linux support.

Microsoft provides some examples for native drivers: https://github.com/microsoft/Windows-driver-samples/tree/master/filesys/fastfat FUSE wrappers: https://github.com/dokan-dev/dokany https://github.com/winfsp/winfsp

Bcachefs having poor disk random read performance

What's your output of `bcachefs fs usage`?

3 replicas with erasure codeing fails with 2 defective drives

_replicas_required is a synonym for _replicas, so you've effectively just set redundancy levels to 2. @koverstreet should we nerf these flags they're just causing confusion?

new allocator with erasure coding: "error creating stripe" on unmount; following fsck’s are confused

EC is in a known bad state at the moment, Kent wants to get around too it "soon".

Fuzz testing with crafted disk images

We have a testing framework if you want to add some: https://evilpiepirate.org/git/ktest.git/

Feature request: delay writeback as long as possible

See #171

bcachefs balance and flushes kernel tasks hung

Use master from: https://evilpiepirate.org/git/bcachefs.git/ my issues went away with using commit: 999b621250d158ddfada12485a08d8223996be6e Also note issue: #212

AES-based encryption feasible?

bcachefs just uses the kernel crypto libraries, and looking at the code, I think it's pretty easy to change (I'm no expert) Kent made some comments on the website about...

GCN backend.

I've been doing some research and it doesn't look promising. llvm code that is generated seems to quite low level e.g. for drivers on linux (which means not portable, and...