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Conquest FS: "The Disk Is Dead"

Posted by Hemos on from the long-live-the-disk dept.

andfarm writes "A few days ago, I sat in at a presentation of a what seems to be a new file system concept: Conquest. Apparently they've developed a FS that stores all the metadata and a lot of the small files in battery-backed RAM. (No, not flash-RAM. That'd be stupid.) According to benchmarks, it's almost as fast as ramfs. Impressive." The page linked above is actually more of a summary page - there's some good .ps research reports in there.

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  1. Yeah wutever by Apparition-X · · Score: 5, Funny

    God is dead. (Neitzche) Tape is dead. (Innumerable pundits) Disk is dead. (Conquest FS) Yet somehow, they all seem to be alive and kicking as of right now. I wouldnt be throwing a wake just yet for any of 'em.

    1. Re:Yeah wutever by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

      Nietzsche is dead.
      --God
      (Lameness filter lameness.)

    2. Re:Yeah wutever by slasher999 · · Score: 1, Funny

      You all forget the most popular one - OS/2 is dead.

    3. Re:Yeah wutever by Big_Monkey_Bird · · Score: 2, Funny

      "Print is Dead" - Egon Spengler

    4. Re:Yeah wutever by moonbender · · Score: 2, Funny
      That's tragic. Whoever this "Neitzche" fellow was, my condolences to his friends and family.

      (I just searched Google for "Neitzche". 2,020 results, nearly all of them misspellings of the philosopher's name. Sad.)

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    5. Re:Yeah wutever by Drakonian · · Score: 2, Funny

      The already beleagured disk community was hit with a crippling bombshell today... etc etc... Truly and American icon.

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  2. Re:Linux is dying by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Funny

    Wow, that was a hilarious response...I just don't know how in the HELL I'm ever going to pick myself up off the floor and stop laughing...

    I mean, hey, the amount of originality and wit just astounds me...and they were SO creatively applied...

    how does he do it????

  3. Obvious solution by palad1 · · Score: 2, Funny

    Put your swap file on a Ramdisk.

    Palad1, MCSE

  4. That's what I said about Linux . . . by Idou · · Score: 2, Funny

    "something like this could make waiting over a min or two to [re]boot totally obselete..."

    But my company's IS dept. is still very content on making me reboot whenever I try to do something "luxurious," like having two applications open at the same time.

    I will post my sig as soon as I finish rebooting.

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