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I was looking forward to ZFS, but there was a recent article about BTRFS that caught my eye. What I would really like to see, though, is some modern filesystem
by pohl 17y ago
I was looking forward to ZFS, but there was a recent article about BTRFS that caught my eye.
What I would really like to see, though, is some modern filesystem with a license that is neither offensive to a commercial vendor like Apple or Microsoft, nor offensive to the GNU crowd, or the BSD crowd. I'm not sure that's even possible, but it would be nice to know that I could format a flash drive in a universal way that isn't FAT32.
- glymor 17y agoAnything out of BSD land would have a compatible licence with both commercial vendors and the GPL. For example http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HAMMER http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HAMMER If your talking about writing something and being sure to be able to read it at some future time UFS is read-compatible pretty much everywhere.
- rbanffy 17y ago"format a flash drive in a universal way that isn't FAT32." Microsoft will never, ever support a technology they don't control. FAT32 is just fine by them and you can't count them out when you say "universal". They could, of course, use BSD licensed stuff, but they would not be able to put pressure and extract licensing fees like they do with FAT.