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State Of The Filesystem

Posted by timothy on from the upward-tilting-trend dept.

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."

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  1. Start weeding out ... by chess · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    ... trailing / in filenames now.

    Usage of text editors as well, cat and echo will rule!

    chess

  2. Other Filesystems? by CordMeyer · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    I use HFS+ because Apple makes me. Is it efficient? reliable? Well... it works most of the time.

    The + kept us busy for a while.

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  3. PDF: Unfit for Human Consumption by ChaosDiscord · · Score: 0, Offtopic
    I was just reading Jakob Nielsen's article "PDF: Unfit for Human Consumption", and here we have a stunning example of why PDFs are the wrong solution for online reading. Five pages of text, no charts, pictures, or graphs. Just text. Just like HTML handles great. Thanks to the web and HTML, I can have text displayed in fonts I've selected as comfortable to read, with the text automatically wrapping at a width I prefer, presented in colors that reduce my eyestrain, all presented in a single scrolling display that is easy to use on a computer screen. Thank's to PDF, I get Skeme's fonts, fixed width, no color control, and artificially seperated into physical pages.

    Feh.

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