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Microsoft Announces ReFS, a New Filesystem For Windows 8

Posted by timothy on from the comes-with-striped-shirt dept.

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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  1. My preview of ReFS by TechGuys · · Score: 5, Funny

    After my initial tests, I must say that ReFS is incredible advangement. ReFS supports named streams, object IDs, short names, compression, file level encryption (EFS), user data transactions, sparse, hard-links, extended attributes and quotas. It is basically all the best filesystems compiled into one.

    Not only is this good for Windows system, but overall network architecture.

    1. Re:My preview of ReFS by vlm · · Score: 5, Funny

      End users: We still live in a world of 8.3 filenames. Sorry. Till the last PC is burned in a bonfire...

      You know what would be a funny graph of google data? How many are still serving up .htm files instead of .html files vs year.

      20 years from now my grandkids are going to have to answer on Jeopardy why computer filenames are still in a 8.3 filename format.

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  2. Starts with 'R' by uigrad_2000 · · Score: 5, Funny

    This is a bad idea.

    Now we can count on some guy named 'Hans Resilient" to be tried and found guilty of murder.

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  3. You gotta be kidding me?! by Robert+Zenz · · Score: 5, Funny
    From the blog post:

    Today, NTFS is the most widely used, advanced, and feature rich file system in broad use.

    If this is true...it's a very sad world we live in...

  4. Re:linux driver by SJHillman · · Score: 5, Funny

    There's already no Linux driver for it... so does that mean you're going to switch? And if someone makes a Linux driver will you switch back to not using it?

  5. Warning by TBedsaul · · Score: 5, Funny

    If you're married to "Hans Resilient", you'll want to start running now.

  6. More things to patent.... by Sir_Sri · · Score: 5, Funny

    Sounds like they're due for a refresh so they can get some new patents on their filesystem to make sure all the device makers need to continue to pay them money.