Re: [RFC] MXFS: a shared-disk clustered filesystem derived from XFS

[Carlos Maiolino <cem@kernel.org>]

On Sat, Sep 26, 2026 at 07:32:27AM -0500, Steve Shoecraft wrote:
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> Good catch on the magic - I had it changed in previous attempts and forgot on this one - release 0.90.0 has MXFS unique magic.
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> I’ve been writing device drivers since the 90s on FreeBSD.  This was a research project to see if an LLM could do it with the right harness.
> 
> Release conditions of course included 100% data integrity and 100% stability.   XFS was the right choice for the base.
> 
> Intent is a good clustered FS for Proxmox to compete with vSphere and VMFS.  Yes, I’m aware of the differences in implementations.

If you are not even bothering reviewing your own project source code as
you stated, don't expect anybody else to spend their time or have
interest on it.


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> > On Sep 26, 2026, at 1:07 AM, Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org> wrote:
> > 
> > I don't think too many people are going to care about your LLM dump,
> > or even review it.  But please make sure you use different magic numbers
> > so that a mxfs image left in the wild is not mistaken for an xfs one.