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muxfs - A self-healing filesystem layer for OpenBSD

Stephen Adams

Stephen Adams

I am the author and maintainer of The Multiplexed File System.
muxfs is a mirroring, checksumming, and self-healing filesystem layer for OpenBSD. It mirrors a filesystem tree across a series of directories, and employs checksum databases to validate and restore files automatically.
Hacker News front page on 2022-08-14: https://news.ycombinator.com/front?day=2022-08-14
Lobsters (like HN but invite-only) discussion: https://lobste.rs/s/xddtf5/introducing_muxfs_mirroring
Main project page: https://sdadams.org/muxfs/
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Posted Jul 19, 2024

HN front page 2022-08-14, link in article. A filesystem to multiplex file I/O into multiple directories with checksums to check and restore data automatically.