Re: [ANNOUNCE] DAXFS: A zero-copy, dmabuf-friendly filesystem for shared memory
Matthew Wilcox <[email protected]> Mon, 26 Jan 2026 19:16:46 +0000
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On Mon, Jan 26, 2026 at 09:38:23AM -0800, Cong Wang wrote: > If you are interested in adding multikernel support to EROFS, here is > the codebase you could start with: > https://github.com/multikernel/linux. PR is always welcome. I think the onus is rather the other way around. Adding a new filesystem to Linux has a high bar to clear because it becomes a maintenance burden to the rest of us. Convince us that what you're doing here *can't* be done better by modifying erofs. Before I saw the email from Gao Xiang, I was also going to suggest that using erofs would be a better idea than supporting your own filesystem. Writing a new filesystem is a lot of fun. Supporting a new filesystem and making it production-quality is a whole lot of pain. It's much better if you can leverage other people's work. That's why DAX is a support layer for filesystems rather than its own filesystem.