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<gnucode>ok I am in the shell...

<gnucode>I'm not certain how to see where my / and /home partitions are

<gnucode>it said they were supposed to be mounted in /target

<dsmith>gnucode, Have you seen https://www.debian.org/ports/hurd/hurd-install ?

<gnucode>let me take a look

<gnucode>well looks like the installer shell is sort of stuck...

<gnucode>I may have been using a weird installer CD too.

<gnucode>let me try burning using the June 8th 2023 installer iso cd.

<gnucode>ok the netinstall does not work.

<gnucode>geez magit is soo freaking awesome!

<gnucode>Cherry picking is so easy! somewhat counter-intuitive. Y branch name RET branch name RET highlight the commits then A A

<Gooberpatrol_66>for people who didn't see it https://www.gnu.org/software/hurd/news/2023-q4.html

<anthk_>on hurd, any working fs beside of ext2fs?

<youpi>fatfs ;)

<anthk_>ok, a journaled one :p ?

<Gooberpatrol_66>people were discussing a new filesystem, but no work done yet

<ThinkT510>Gooberpatrol_66: nice. glad they got qoth going again.

<ThinkT510>really cool someone is trying to port the ladybird browser

<gnucode>anthk_: I would think it would be awesome to port bcachefs to the Hurd. It would probably be a fair amount of work.

<gnucode>but 90% of the code builds and run in userspace

<nikolar>gnucode: how is your porting wotk going for netsurf

<gnucode>nikolar: haha. I think you seriously overstate my coding abilities. :)

<gnucode>I did try to work on it last night.

<gnucode>It looks like there is only 4 instances of PATHMAX.

<gnucode>are*

<gnucode>nikolar: were you the person who was wanting to write a filesystem?

<nikolar>Yeah

<nikolar>Haven't done much work on that recently but soon

<nikolar>gnucode: ^

<gnucode>nikolar: do you have a design document?

<nikolar>nope, not yet

<nikolar>i am more of a code first type of guy

<gnucode>what sort of features do you hope to have in 1.0 ?

<nikolar>well snapshotting and rollback i guess

<nikolar>if all goes well, zfs likefilesystems

<nikolar>as in different mountpoints that belong to the the same partitions

<nikolar>*partition

<nikolar>depends on how much time i have since it is a uni project after all

<nikolar>until i graduate at least

<nikolar>gnucode: ^

<gnucode>nikolar: have you considered porting bcachefs?

<nikolar>hah no

<nikolar>that seems like a lot of work

<nikolar>porting a linux kernel driver to anything

<gnucode>nikolar: have you watched the talk that Kent and I had?

<gnucode>90% of bcachefs already builds and runs in userspace.

<nikolar>yeah but the part that's actually a driver doesn't

<nikolar>because it's in the kernel

<gnucode>I wish you luck. Developing a filesystem from scratch is not easy.

<nikolar>thanks gnucode

<nikolar>it's really not that bad if you just want something to keep your files

<nikolar>it's hard when you get to performance

<gnucode>hey youpi

<gnucode> https://darnassus.sceen.net/~hurd-web/hurd/porting/system_api_limitations/

<gnucode>I can remove all but #187391 ?

<youpi>gnucode: msgget is still not implemented either

<gnucode>thanks

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