State Of The Filesystem

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Posted by timothy on Monday July 14, 2003 @11:14PM 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. Re:GNAA is getting stronger than ever! by Anonymous Coward · 2003-07-14 23:16 · Score: -1, Offtopic
  
  Somebody please stop this.
  
  It ain't funny. It ain't amusing. It's a waste of moderator points, and it's a waste of bandwidth.
2. Re:GNAA is getting stronger than ever! by Anonymous Coward · 2003-07-14 23:16 · Score: -1, Offtopic
  
  what about those from outer space?
3. Re:GNAA is getting stronger than ever! by Anonymous Coward · 2003-07-14 23:19 · Score: -1, Offtopic
  
  Aren't they Danish?
4. Re:GNAA is getting stronger than ever! by Anonymous Coward · 2003-07-14 23:55 · Score: -1, Offtopic
  
  On the contrary, trolls like this are providing a valuable service by crap flooding this fucking shit site.
  
  The basic problem as I see it, is that there are far TOO MANY modpoints flying around. This means that those awarded points have plenty of leeway in modding people down because they DON'T AGREE WITH THEM rather than the legitimate reasons eg. it's a troll, or a flame.
  
  Until those with mod points realise they're not the fucking moral yardstick, I hope the GNAA, TrollKore etc carry on wasting mod points.
  
  A disgruntled logged-out user.
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IPV6 has issues by Michael's+a+Jerk! · 2003-07-14 23:16 · Score: -1, Offtopic

While IPv6 fixes many problems in IPv4, the developed world will not
embrace IPv6 until many shortcomings in the protocol are addressed.

1. Cisco routers suck at IPv6. Many of cisco's routers use the
router's CPU to process IPv6 packets instead of the fast-path. The
reasons for this are explained in the next few points. While Juniper's
routers are substantially better at IPv6 than cisco's, IT managers are
often restrained by insane corporate policy that dictactes the use of
cisco.

2. There are too many addresses. There are 16.7 million addresses per
square metre of the earth's surface, including the oceans. This is
overkill. The world does not need more than the 4 billion addresses
available with IPv4, and I challenge you to come up with an
application that requires that many. Assuming that you can actually
come up with one, it could easily be solved with Network Address
Translation, or NAT as it is commonly known.

3. IPv6 addresses are too large. An IPv6 address is 128 bits in size -
64 bits of which are reserved for addressing hosts, and 64 bits of
which are reserved for routing. One thing that is cool with IPv6 is
address autoconfiguration. Take your 56-bit MAC address on your
ethernet card, ask for 64-bits of network prefix, bang it together
with EUI-64 and you are set. The problem with a 64-bit network prefix
is that routing tables become massive. Just do the math and you'll see
that extreme amounts of memory are required to hold routing tables.

4. The IPv6 header is too large. An IPv4 header compact at 20 bytes in
length, while the IPv6 is bloated at 40 bytes. That's right people,
each one of your IP packets has twice as much overhead as before.
While this may not sound much, IP networks have a requirement that the
minimum MTU supported must be 576 bytes. That means that where you
might have got 556 bytes of data in your IP packets, you now get 536
bytes. This means that downloading stuff will take 3.4% longer.

Sure, IPv6 allows for nice hacks like those described in this article,
but is it really ready for prime time?

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1. Re:IPV6 has issues by Anonymous Coward · 2003-07-15 04:53 · Score: -1, Offtopic
  
  Sup Finky!
Plan 9 by cibus · 2003-07-14 23:32 · Score: -1, Offtopic

...from outer space. Can you stand the shocking truth about graverobbers from uter space!?" I saw Ed Woods classic this weekend - just had to comment on that one ;-) "Can you stand the shocking truth about file shredders from Bell Labs!!?" Andreas
Start weeding out ... by chess · 2003-07-14 23:32 · Score: 0, Offtopic

... trailing / in filenames now.

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

chess
Other Filesystems? by CordMeyer · 2003-07-15 00:17 · 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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PDF: Unfit for Human Consumption by ChaosDiscord · 2003-07-15 06:30 · 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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