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Are you and XorNot guessing, or are you basing this off a statement they made? Because the alternate explantation I assumed is that they don't want to continue
by scott_s 8y ago
Are you and XorNot guessing, or are you basing this off a statement they made?
Because the alternate explantation I assumed is that they don't want to continue maintaining a bunch of different filesystems. That complicates development quite a bit (because you need to have developers who know the quirks of the file systems) and testing a lot (because all changes have to be tested on all variants, and it becomes multiplicative when a platform has multiple file systems).
- Aaargh20318 8y ago> the alternate explantation I assumed is that they don't want to continue maintaining a bunch of different filesystems. But they don't have to maintain a bunch of different filesystems. That's the OS's job. From the application's PoV there shouldn't be any difference between these filesystems, all they need to do is check if the required feature (xattrs) is enabled for a certain FS and that's all.
- scott_s 8y agoYou still need to test. And I'm skeptical that there is no observable difference from the application level.