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Linux Gains Lossless File System
Anonymous Coward writes "An R&D affiliate of the world's largest telephone company has achieved a stable release of a new Linux file system said to improve reliability over conventional Linux file systems, and offer performance advantages over Solaris's UFS file system. NILFS 1.0 (new implementation of a log-structured file system) is available now from NTT Labs (Nippon Telegraph and Telephone's Cyber Space Laboratories)."
If it is lossless, I won't be able to store MPEG, XVid, JPEG and MP3 on it anymore? :(
Websites with MILFS have been around for years.
Oh, wait. NILFS. My bad.
Will there be a Windows Driver?
If there isn't, this has no chance on taking off. Consumers today want portability. They don't like lock-in. A linux exclusive format is lock-in.
Create a good windows (and Mac OS) driver, and it's got massive potential.
NILFS is too close to MILFs
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More file integrity is always good. Ever since journaling file systems became available I just started turning the power off to my computers (via a power strip) rather than going through the shutdown command. It never made sense to me that we'd have to "shut down" as opposed to just turning the thing off.
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Scratch my previous post, I actually read the article. My bad :)
Note: instead of modding this +1 funny, mod it +0.1 pathetic.
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Logs structures are suceptible to termites, carpenter ants, and various forms of rot.
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Reiser3 works fine on Debian with no kernel patching required.
It seems as if you're holding out for perfection, not willing to upgrade from ext3 to anything else unless you find The Perfect Filesystem. I think that's kinda silly; better to get 90% of what you need now, than to wait another 2-4 years, surely?
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Logs structures are suceptible to termites, carpenter ants, and various forms of rot.
Even worse, when many logs are added together, the problems multiply.
Here's an overview for lazy people like me
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Hold on a sec -- if lazy people like you provide overviews, does that mean they (and you) are no longer lazy? And do all of us have to provide overviews now?
Good God, man, think of the ramifications of what you say!!!!
> A lossless file system? Good lord... I most certainly hope
> all the existing file systems out there are not lossy.
I usually store my files at the "CD Quality" setting. For simple emails and stuff I'll go as low as "Radio Quality" but I have to squint a little to make out the text later due to the aliasing.
/. is a journaled website. We can't scratch your previous post. Years from now you will be able to come back and show your grandchildren how silly you were.
Yes, yes, when I leave behind too large a log, it won't properly flush, and that does lead to overflow.
... we were talking about bathrooms, weren't we?
Er
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I have heard Stallman referred to as a great many things on this site, but I think this is the first time anyone has used that comparison.
How about "Redundant Raid Array of Disks"?
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I keep all my original digital photos (in .tiff format) along with full-quality movies and all the games I've ever played back to Duke Nukem on 80x386 on a RAID array that's grown to nearly 2 terabytes.
So, basically, you're going to keep Duke Nukem forever?
I prefer Redundant RAID Array myself.
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