What are some exciting projects that you follow and hope to see progress on?

I’ll start!

  • Wayland greeter on SDDM
  • rust support on gcc
  • more Wayland adoption (especially VSCodium & Firefox forks)
  • Reproducible Build
  • ReactOS
    • trougnouf@lemmy.world
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      1 year ago

      It has RAID modes and it intelligently rearranges data s.t. commonly used files are stored in a fast drive and fetched from there, whereas BTRFS will write to and read from a “random” drive regardless of its speed.

      The previous solution of using btrfs raid1 + bcache (not the FS) separately was very wasteful because the cache had to store both/all copies of the data since btrfs picks a random drive to read from.

      • theshatterstone54@feddit.uk
        0·
        1 year ago

        Does it provide any advantages for home users? I can see how this could be useful in enterprise settings, but does it benefit regular desktop users?

        • trougnouf@lemmy.world
          1·
          1 year ago

          Yes, lots of storage space with redundancy and the speed advantage of an SSD. If you have enough data where a pair of reasonably priced SSDs is not enough then it is highly advantageous to combine them with (cheaper/bigger) HDDs.

          Personally I would not consider a filesystem without data redundancy for my personal files, and I have enough pictures to fill some hard drives but I don’t like waiting for them to load.