State Of The Filesystem

Skeme writes "Have you heard of Plan 9 or Reiser4 but don't know much about them? Are you curious about the improvements free software is making to its filesystems in general? Read my summary of the current developments in the filesystem: namely, what improvements we can expect (a lot), and what Linux and the BSDs can do to improve on the filesystem."

Comments

Re:Transferring Files

[warrax_666]

Anyone have any insight?

Are you mad? This is slashdot.

It sounded so intelligent until he started playing

[The Monster]

sure, im going to listen to this guy about filesystem implementation when he cant even set up MIME types on his webserver.

or spell: (emphasis mine)

If you just want to give them some default settings,have that line below their home directory's line. Viola! Lock down framework.

I know we hackers like to, uh, fiddle with our computers...

MOD PARENT UP

[Anonymous Coward]

It looks insightful

What's in a name?

[Zog The Undeniable]

I assume Plan9 is an ironic nod to the "worst film ever". When I develop my new filing system, which will only allow numeric characters in filenames, will delete the MFT every time the computer is rebooted, and will require a new directory for each file added to the system - that FAT16 limit of 512 was FAR too generous - I'm going to call it BattlefieldEarthFS.