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In my opinion storing, not deleting, is the most important job of a file system. Increased efficiency and free space is a better proposition than replicating th
by dictum 7y ago
In my opinion storing, not deleting, is the most important job of a file system. Increased efficiency and free space is a better proposition than replicating the average user's mental model of free space in the volume.
(If my opinion holds true, then deduplicating is a problem when it comes to storage: a copy made to prevent bitrot/other damage to the original data doesn't work as such.)
- voxadam 7y agoStoring vs deleting is one of the reasons that I'd love to see more research done on log based filesystems.
- Wowfunhappy 7y ago> Increased efficiency and free space is a better proposition than replicating the average user's mental model of free space in the volume. I'm not sure if I agree. In an ideal world, it makes sense that performance should be paramount. In reality, I think it's often more important that computers do what we expect them to, so we can predict when they'll break and know how to resolve the problem when they do. This is all the more important in consumer software. "My hard drive is out of space" is a very basic computer problem that most users will run into at some point. The intuitive solution is to delete stuff. If that solution doesn't work, it could be a major problem.