Alessandro17 Posted March 17, 2008 Share Posted March 17, 2008 http://arstechnica.com/articles/paedia/pas...ile-systems.ars Computer platform advocacy can bubble up in the strangest places. In a recent interview at a conference in Australia, Linux creator Linus Torvalds got the Macintosh community in an uproar when he described Mac OS X's file system as "complete and utter {censored}, which is scary." What did he mean? What is a "file system" anyway, and why would we care why one is better than another? At first glance, it might seem that file systems are boring technical widgetry that would never impact our lives directly, but in fact, the humble file system has a huge influence on how we use and interact with computers. This article will start off by defining what a file system is and what it does. Then we'll take a look back at the history of how various file systems evolved and why new ones were introduced. Finally we'll take a brief glance into our temporal vortex and see how file systems might change in the future. We'll start by looking at the file systems of the past, then we'll look at file systems used by individual operating systems before looking at what the future may hold. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/94182-from-bfs-to-zfs-past-present-and-future-of-file-systems/ Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dermatea Posted March 18, 2008 Share Posted March 18, 2008 Wow. I knew FAT32 and NTFS were awesome. I just didn't know they were THAT good. I see things in a new light now. HFS+ seems kinda shaky now. Then again, switching to XFS is totally overkill. Honestly, EXABYTES?!! Do we really need something that big? *sigh* If only everything supported NTFS. That would make life so much simpler. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/94182-from-bfs-to-zfs-past-present-and-future-of-file-systems/#findComment-671472 Share on other sites More sharing options...
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