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The Linux Filesystem Challenge

Posted by timothy on from the joneses-went-thattaway dept.

Joe Barr writes "Mark Stone has thrown down the gauntlet for Linux filesystem developers in his thoughtful essay on Linux.com. The basic premise is that Linux must find a next-generation filesystem to keep pace with Microsoft and Apple, both of whom are promising new filesystems in a year or two. Never mind that Microsoft has been promising its "innovative" native database/filesystem (copying an idea from IBM's hugely successful OS/400) for more than ten years now. Anybody remember Cairo?"

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  1. Re:bah! by Fjornir · · Score: 5, Funny

    I'll use flat files and grep like god intended.

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  2. Compatible by cubicledrone · · Score: 4, Funny

    Just make sure it is incompatible with all the current applications so we can rewrite everything. Add a cool feature or something too.

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  3. Re:Filesystems are tools by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 4, Funny

    for example, FAT32 has found its way into grandmother's desktop and production web servers

    Wow, your grandmother has production webservers! Cool. ;-)

  4. Re:not so fast ... by cortana · · Score: 5, Funny

    What's that? The ghost of Andrew Tenenbaum... mouthing the word "Microkernel, microkernel" over and over again!