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MeshXFS is an open-source filesystem project that adapts XFS for read-write use across multiple machines. Phoronix reports that its creator, Steve Shoecraft, used AI coding agents, primarily Claude Opus, to write the components needed for clustering, including distributed locking and crash recovery.
Why it mattersThe project is reported to support shared iSCSI storage or dual-primary DRBD, with recent compatibility additions for Ubuntu 26.04 and Debian 12. Shoecraft says releases undergo multi-node testing. That makes this more than an AI-generated demo, though the project’s own report of testing is not a substitute for wider scrutiny of software handling shared data. AI coding claims are easy to make; a filesystem has the inconvenient habit of needing to keep people’s data intact.
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