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File System Wars (bytearchitect.io)
28 points by rantingdemon 60 days ago
6 comments
troad 59 days 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.

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otterley 60 days 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.
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sam_lowry_ 60 days ago
Also biased towards APFS which has quite some problems, e.g. unicode normalization hell.
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kjs3 60 days 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".
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m-p-3 60 days 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).
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mmh0000 60 days 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.

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i_am_a_peasant 60 days ago
Is there a reason in particular why btrfs is not part of this discussion? It's been mentioned once in passing.
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isr 59 days ago
DragonflyBSD's hammer filesystem (on v2 now, I think)
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pseudohadamard 59 days ago
Did anyone else giggle every time they read "FFS" in TFA?
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