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NILFS is absolutely wonderful; it was very unfortunate that Linus chose to dub btrfs as the ext4 successor all those years ago, because it cut off a lot of inte
by rodgerd 4y ago
NILFS is absolutely wonderful; it was very unfortunate that Linus chose to dub btrfs as the ext4 successor all those years ago, because it cut off a lot of interest in the plethora of interesting work that was going on at the time.
A decade later and btrfs is still riddled with problems and incomplete, people are still using xfs and ext4 for lack of trust, one kernel dev has a side hobby trying to block openzfs, and excellent little projects like nilfs are largely unknown.
- perrygeo 4y ago> one kernel dev has a side hobby trying to block openzfs Can you elaborate?
- E39M5S62 4y agoI don't know if everything has been collected in an easy-to-digest form, but GKH has gone out of his way a few times to shut out OpenZFS.
- rodgerd 4y agoExactly. Removing or changing the licensing on APIs in a way carefully targeted to break ZFS, but not affect actual proprietary drivers such as the NVidia graphics drivers.
- _kdave 4y ago> it was very unfortunate that Linus chose to dub btrfs as the ext4 successor That quote is from Ted T'so (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Btrfs#History https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Btrfs#History) or do you have a link to Linus' quote?