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File systems are pretty instrinsic to how modern computers work, replacing them would be a monumental task not just for users but for the architecture of comput
by bodge5000 5y ago
File systems are pretty instrinsic to how modern computers work, replacing them would be a monumental task not just for users but for the architecture of computers.
Of course you don't nessecarily need to replace it, you can just use new tools on top of it, like you do with iOS and to some extent android. Both of those use file systems even if you never see them. But in any of those cases, you're still using a file system, with all the apparent problems that come with them, you just have an abstraction layer on top to make it easier (or at least different) to navigate.
For me, file systems are about as tried and true as you can get, they're not perfect but they do the job well enough to consider the cost of replacing them too great.
- xattt 5y ago> File systems are pretty instrinsic to how modern computers work, replacing them would be a monumental task not just for users but for the architecture of computers. Is this true for spinning disks only or does this apply to SSDs as well? I understand that APFS tried to shoehorn SSD-like operations into the FS layer.