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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."

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  2. Hard times for *BSD by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll
    Ask yourself the real question: why did *BSD fail? Once you get past the fact that *BSD is fragmented between a myriad of incompatible kernels, there is the historical record of failure and of failed operating systems. *BSD experienced moderate success about 15 years ago in academic circles. Since then it has been in steady decline. We all know *BSD keeps losing market share but why? Is it the problematic personalities of many of the key players? Or is it larger than their troubled personalities?

    The record is clear on one thing: no operating system has ever come back from the grave. Efforts to resuscitate *BSD are one step away from spiritualists wishing to communicate with the dead. As the situation grows more desperate for the adherents of this doomed OS, the sorrow takes hold. An unremitting gloom hangs like a death shroud over a once hopeful *BSD community. The hope is gone; a mournful nostalgia has settled in. Now is the end time for *BSD.

  3. good read, but less relevant by PhysicsExpert · · Score: -1, Troll

    The article is an interesting read and some of the mechanisms he mentions for speed improvements are pretty cool but I think the days when file systems could make a difference are in the past.

    10 years ago, for instance, hard drive speeds were the limiting factor (200s-1 was typical) and so a good file system could generate a fairly decent performance gain. Nowadays we have hard drives that are up to 14Tb and later this year IBM will be launching their quantum series were information will be stored in the nucleus of the atoms making up the platter giving it lightening speed and rendering any improvements to the filesystem as superfluous

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    All that glitters has a high refractive index.
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  5. Re:Transferring Files by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    hurry up and do it. we'll be sitting here, waiting.