FYI: the main reason I gave up on bcachefs is that I can't use devices with native 16K blocks.
Hope that's coming this year. I have a bunch of old HDDs and SSDs and I could very easily assemble a spare storage server with about 4TB capacity. Already tested bcachefs with most of the drives and it performed very well.
Also lack of ability to reconstruct seems like another worrying omission.
Seriously? But... NVMe drives! I stopped testing because I only have one spare NVMe and couldn't use it with bcachefs.
If you or others can get it done I'm absolutely starting to use bcachefs the month after. I do need fast storage servers in my home office.
Yeah I know, thanks. But ZFS still mostly requires drives with the same sizes. My main NAS is like that but I can't expand it even though I want to, with drives of different sizes I have lying around, and I am not keen on spending for new HDDs right now. So I thought I'll make a secondary NAS with bcachefs and all the spare drives I have.
As for ZFS, I'll be buying some extra drives later this year and will make use of direct_io so I can use another NVMe spare for faster access.
I wasn't aware there were actual users needing bs > ps yet. Cool :)
That should be a completely trivial for bcachefs to support, it'll mostly just be a matter of finding or writing the tests.