super stoked on it; now I have the long arduous problem of trying to get all distros to support it lol.

If you are curious about the failfs changes too, that came from John Ericsson’s (Nix core contributor) RFC on “null namespaces”. Very exciting as well.

https://lore.kernel.org/linux-fsdevel/a49ce818-f38d-41b0-bbf7-80b8aad998b1@app.fastmail.com/

The release inspired me to revisit this work and try to shed some light on what it can accomplish: https://fzakaria.com/2026/10/17/one-store-two-frontends (same link as yours)

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