File System Wars

Posted by rantingdemon 1 day ago

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Comment by troad 10 hours ago

> 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.

Comment by otterley 22 hours ago

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.

Comment by sam_lowry_ 21 hours ago

Also biased towards APFS which has quite some problems, e.g. unicode normalization hell.

Comment by kjs3 20 hours ago

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".

Comment by m-p-3 18 hours ago

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).

Comment by mmh0000 18 hours ago

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.

Comment by i_am_a_peasant 23 hours ago

Is there a reason in particular why btrfs is not part of this discussion? It's been mentioned once in passing.

Comment by isr 16 hours ago

DragonflyBSD's hammer filesystem (on v2 now, I think)