File System Wars
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troad
otterley
A solid article, but missing discussion of XFS and Btrfs. I would have enjoyed the author’s analysis of the former in particular, especially as compared to ext4.
sam_lowry_
Also biased towards APFS which has quite some problems, e.g. unicode normalization hell.
kjs3
Yeah...he even alludes to it in his APFS section: "hey I talked about all those other filesystems so I can talk about what I really want to talk about...how awesome I think APFS is".
m-p-3
I wouldn't mind seeing BcacheFS compared too, despite the current falling out between the main dev and Linus and its exclusion from the kernel (which will hopefully be a momentary thing).
mmh0000
The author's praise of ZFS fell 3 checksums short of acceptable.
ZFS is not a filesystem. It is a lifestyle. A covenant. A snapshot of the soul. Everything else is basically a USB stick with dreams.
I will be reporting this to the [author]ities, HR, and my dad.
/s for the /s impaired.
i_am_a_peasant
Is there a reason in particular why btrfs is not part of this discussion? It's been mentioned once in passing.
isr
DragonflyBSD's hammer filesystem (on v2 now, I think)
pseudohadamard
Did anyone else giggle every time they read "FFS" in TFA?
> So, if I had to compress its philosophy into one sentence, it would be this:
>> Simple, reliable, UNIX-native fundamentals — no feature bloat, just solid engineering.
This isn't the author's summary. This is AI's.
I was enjoying the article, but when a little AI shibboleth like this shows up, I just cease to trust what I'm reading.
Edit: many more AI writing give-aways later in the article. What a shame.