  Bento provides a new approach to developing file systems, with safety and
high-velocity development in mind. This is achieved by using Rust, a modern and
memory-safe systems programming language, and by providing a framework to run a
single file system implementation in kernel space with the VFS or in user space
with FUSE. In this paper, the benchmarking experiments from the Bento paper are
repeated. We fail to exactly reproduce the results of the Bento paper, but more
or less find the same patterns albeit with more outlying results. Additionally
we unsuccessfully run a standardized test suite, and expand the set of
experiments with latency benchmarks and throughput benchmarks using a RAM block
device. The latency benchmarks show that ext4 with journaling consistently
outperforms Bento-fs and the RAM throughput benchmarks show no additional
consistent performance pattern. During this experimentation, a set of 12 bugs
was encountered and analyzed. We find that the ratio of memory related bugs is
lower than other systems programming projects that use C as opposed to Rust,
thus supporting the claims of the Bento framework.
