What a click bait title. Article goes on to explain the rational reasons why ReFS wasn’t built for mainstream use and doing so might bloat its performance on the very server systems it was designed to be efficient for.
ReFS is better than NTFS, but Microsoft refuses to let regular users have it
Submitted 2 months ago by themachinestops@lemmy.dbzer0.com to technology@lemmy.world
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Imgonnatrythis@sh.itjust.works 2 months ago
KyuubiNoKitsune@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 months ago
May I be the first one here to say… Fuck Microslop
Brkdncr@lemmy.world 2 months ago
It’s not ready yet. It’s good for some specific use cases but it’s not anything the typical end user needs.
RedEyeFlightControl@lemmy.world 2 months ago
This. NTFS is still the gold standard for stability. ReFS is meant for data ops, and while it’s fairly stable, and offers a lot of advantages, it’s not perfect and can suffer greatly if used incorrectly. Until the quirks are gone, users are probably better off with NTFS for a lot of reasons.
fox2263@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Yet?? They’ve been making it since the Stone Age. I read about it in my teens
undefined@lemmy.hogru.ch 2 months ago
Right? I’ve gone through ReiserFS, ext3, ext4, XFS, ZFS; hell on macOS I’ve been through HFS+ and AFS. And clunky ol’ Microsoft is still on fucking NTFS.
Brkdncr@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Maybe “it’s not needed yet” is more accurate.
ILikeBoobies@lemmy.ca 2 months ago
Why would you use either over btrFS?
Samskara@sh.itjust.works 2 months ago
Why would you use BTRFS over ZFS?
the_crotch@sh.itjust.works 2 months ago
Why would you use zfs over fat12?
jobbies@lemmy.zip 2 months ago
Yeah but is it better than WinFS?
eightys3v3n@lemmy.ca 2 months ago
I wish Microsoft adopted and upstreamed changes to OpenZFS instead of duplicating all this effort.
glen_malley@lemmy.ca 2 months ago
Problem is Microsoft has zero interest in zfs. Not even as far as answering questions the openzfs windows dev asks them.
daggermoon@piefed.world 2 months ago
Does Windows support any filesystems that don’t suck?
CompactFlax@discuss.tchncs.de 2 months ago
It could be Sco vs Linux all over again