ibm.com — When it comes to file systems,Linux is the Swiss Army knife of operating systems. Linux supports a large number of file systems, from journaling to clustering to cryptographic. Linux is a wonderful platform for using standard and more exotic file systems and also for developing file systems. This article explores the virtual file system (VFS)...
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Closed AccountJul 27, 2008
Hell yeah a lot of file systems that will do the same thing. Is there any file system that build real-time indexes of files and folders so that I can find any of them under 10 seconds? I'm talking about the one like WinFS that doesn't require search indexing demon to regularly index the files. Linux really needs to go ahead of the game while WinFS is not fully implemented. MySQL or PostgreSQL database structure is very efficient, and so I wonder if somebody would care to learn something from it and create a brand new file system that works.
rowjimmyJul 27, 2008
<a class="user" href="http://www.wizy.org/wiki/ZFS_on_FUSE">http://www.wizy.org/wiki/ZFS_on_FUSE</a>
taseedorfJul 27, 2008
This article is meant for 5% of the population.
init100Jul 27, 2008
Well, complain to Sun Microsystems. They chose the license for ZFS.
init100Jul 27, 2008
"I'm talking about the one like WinFS that doesn't require search indexing demon to regularly index the files."What's wrong with an indexing daemon? They don't have to "regularly index the files". In Linux, applications can subscribe to events from the inotify subsystem, and thus get notified when files change. They don't have to periodically scan through the entire file system, they can simply reindex files when they change.
ebulatingJul 27, 2008
FUSE takes too big of a performance hit.
rowjimmyJul 31, 2008
have you tried it? i haven't, but have read that it isn't that bad... not that i'm about to take the time to try it out. ZFS is nifty and all, and i installed openSolaris on a box i had sitting around when they released it, but haven't really used it since that first week of fiddling around to see what it was all about