-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA256 Hi, On 27/2/19 11:31 am, Rohan McLeod via luv-talk wrote:

I was casually googling " filesystem "do not fragment" option" ; and was distracted by a reference to ReFS; seems to share some features of BTRFS. eg https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=MTA0NDA Comments , rants, invective.........:-)

Is it dead? Just checked a 2012R2 server and it is still using NTFS, I didn't install it, but I do mange it. Another 2012R2 server that I did install also only has NTFS file systems . I was hopeful for Mac OSX, they included ZFS, but that disappeared, perhaps under threat from Oracle, just perhaps.... The other thing that I don't like about both ReFS and BTRFS is that both are linked intrinsically to their own OS and are not portable to other OS types. I like more freedom and ZFS actually provides some of that, although I've been quite happy with plain on ext4 and good backups for a long time. Oh and Microsoft is now touting ability to read/write ext4 (I think it is ext4), in a "limited" fashion. Heck, many years ago I used an ext2 add-on that gave full access to Linux file systems at that time on Windows 95 even -- this article back in 2005: https://www.cyberciti.biz/tips/how-do-i-read-ext2-or-ext3-filesystems-un der-windows-2000-or-xp-desktop.html The IFS tech dates back to Windows 3.11 as well, so it's definitely not something that new: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Installable_File_System https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ReFS You might find the comparison of files systems link more useful on that page. These days I am almost never on Windows unless it is a client machine and I am supporting them with IT services. Cheers A. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- iHUEAREIAB0WIQTJAoMHtC6YydLfjUOoFmvLt+/i+wUCXHbUfQAKCRCoFmvLt+/i ++v0AQDEhiTMglDShFDGb5iJ5z21sjTNJZx6YJDROpWU73cdGgEAvfycv7vw89TH VGtxo2SBn1D9nun6BHSX9BvIla4LKGc= =2RGX -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----