Software developers complain when their work gets outsourced to developing nations, where the coders are paid pennies on the dollar compared to Americans. This is going a step further.
Wouldn't you be complaining if someone wrote some software that made your job obsolete? It's a way of living, throwing it aside for the sake of progress is an abomination.
How many gaping security holes have there been in NTFS?
By most accounts, NTFS is one of the better filesystems ever written. Journaling, ACLs, decent performance.
There is talent in Redmond. Ignoring that is as flawed as assuming the entire Linux community is represented by Sendmail and SCO (security holes and bad publicity). Pretty bad, right?
I think the post meant that it's possible in theory.
If someone made it an end in itself, and put the money behind it as they have with some other projects (ie: huge prize for Linux on un-modded X-Box), the talent exists in the community that it could be accomplished.
Right, but in general, journaling is a hack. The BSD softupdates concept is both cleaner and faster, and accomplishes nearly the same thing.
To be fair, all of NTFS, ext3, reiserfs, BeOS's FS, and the new OSX FS have some advanced journaling features, but the concept itself should be more cleanly handled. Much like databases should be ACID compliant, filesystem writes can and should occur in such a manner that no external journal is required.
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Yea, and?
Software developers complain when their work gets outsourced to developing nations, where the coders are paid pennies on the dollar compared to Americans. This is going a step further.
Wouldn't you be complaining if someone wrote some software that made your job obsolete? It's a way of living, throwing it aside for the sake of progress is an abomination.
Has Sun been bought or destroyed?
IBM?
Apple?
RedHat?
SGI?
This is completely unfair.
How many gaping security holes have there been in NTFS?
By most accounts, NTFS is one of the better filesystems ever written. Journaling, ACLs, decent performance.
There is talent in Redmond. Ignoring that is as flawed as assuming the entire Linux community is represented by Sendmail and SCO (security holes and bad publicity). Pretty bad, right?
I think the post meant that it's possible in theory.
If someone made it an end in itself, and put the money behind it as they have with some other projects (ie: huge prize for Linux on un-modded X-Box), the talent exists in the community that it could be accomplished.
Right, but in general, journaling is a hack. The BSD softupdates concept is both cleaner and faster, and accomplishes nearly the same thing. To be fair, all of NTFS, ext3, reiserfs, BeOS's FS, and the new OSX FS have some advanced journaling features, but the concept itself should be more cleanly handled. Much like databases should be ACID compliant, filesystem writes can and should occur in such a manner that no external journal is required.