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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. Is it? by devphaeton · · Score: 0, Troll

    The basic premise is that Linux must find a next-generation filesystem to keep pace with Microsoft and Apple

    Is Apple's new (or current) Filesystem really Apple's?

    I thought it was a neutered Berkely FFS from the Darwin/Freebsd/Netbsd code they've taken.

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  2. Diet by ParticleMan911 · · Score: 0, Troll

    I'm on a diet so I don't get FAT32.

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  3. Re:New FS (Reiser4 has a compression plugin coming by robertchin · · Score: 1, Troll

    It seems like having gzip support would be more exciting though, since presumably one could combine it with a tar plugin, and that would allow you to cd into a gzipped file like a directory to access the uncompressed data, and then cd into the uncompressed data like a directory to get at the files themselves. Then there would be a totally transparent way to access tarballs that fits into the model that, from my understanding, Reiser4 follows.