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Microsoft Announces ReFS, a New Filesystem For Windows 8
bonch writes "Microsoft has shared details about its new filesystem called ReFS, which stands for Resilient File System. Codenamed 'Protogon,' ReFS will first appear as the storage system for Windows Server and later be offered to Windows clients. Microsoft plans to deprecate lesser-used NTFS features while maintaining 'a high degree of compatibility' for most uses. NTFS has been criticized in the past for its inelegant architecture."
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Some of those features are actually useful:
Compression comes into handy for dealing with directories full of log files.
Mount your log directories from a Linux Samba server with 'fusecompress'.
File level encryption is useful for volumes where BitLocker can't be used.
So is a Linux Samba server with 'encfs'.
Sparse files are extremely useful.
There are a lot of file systems in Linux that support sparse files... It's actually sorta difficult to find a filesystem that doesn't support it.
As for quotas, unless they have another layer for warning/enforcement, how will places keep users from filling up their home directories?
A Linux Samba server can enforce quotas. You can also be super geeky and store home directories on their own partition--so if they fill up, your mail server doesn't die horribly like Exchange does...
I'm hoping ReFS is up to ZFS with needed features, such as deduplication, encryption, an analog of RAID-Z, the filesystem working with the LVM layer (or even replacing it), and so on. Otherwise, people will just shrug and keep NTFS as their default fs of choice because it has been around for so long.
I shrugged and ditched Windows over a decade ago. Haven't missed NTFS yet. ;)
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