liquidat.wordpress.com— Recently Daniel Phillips announced that he is developing a new file system, Tux3. It plans to be a modern file system on level with ZFS and the currently also still in development Btrfs.
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What would be nice is if someone comes up with a new **OS-independent** filesystem to replace FAT32. With the limitations of FAT32 (4gb filesize, cluster size, max partition size, Microsoft's artificial crippling, fragmenting, etc), there needs to be a new standard for portable drives. NTFS, HFS+J and Ext3 do not cut it in this regards, as each are OS-specific in terms of writing and often reading.Someone's gotta come up with FAT64, OpenFAT, or something to replace this aging tech.
The 21st century isn't a valid argument to making huge complex integrated systems. That's never been a winner.The biggest problem I have with ZFS is the same some of the kernel folks have. It's much better to make a modular pluggable system rather than a big monolithic beast that spans multiple layers and subsystems. Perhaps this new system will be able to do these things in a modular fashion.
Indexing within a file system is a big deal, it basically allows for a tagging-like system when saving files, meaning you no longer have to save everything in sub folders to keep organised. You'll quickly find anything on your computer, and you don't need some Indexer Service running all the time in order to do it.
atomic1fireAug 1, 2008
Rieser did, well until the divorce... and the murder
atomic1fireAug 1, 2008
Its the 3 P'sPenguins Practicing capital Punishment
elranzerAug 1, 2008
What would be nice is if someone comes up with a new **OS-independent** filesystem to replace FAT32. With the limitations of FAT32 (4gb filesize, cluster size, max partition size, Microsoft's artificial crippling, fragmenting, etc), there needs to be a new standard for portable drives. NTFS, HFS+J and Ext3 do not cut it in this regards, as each are OS-specific in terms of writing and often reading.Someone's gotta come up with FAT64, OpenFAT, or something to replace this aging tech.
bnolsenAug 2, 2008
The 21st century isn't a valid argument to making huge complex integrated systems. That's never been a winner.The biggest problem I have with ZFS is the same some of the kernel folks have. It's much better to make a modular pluggable system rather than a big monolithic beast that spans multiple layers and subsystems. Perhaps this new system will be able to do these things in a modular fashion.
animal6969Aug 3, 2008
Half the fun of this article was reading the comments.. Much more interesting then the story itself..
nascenttAug 5, 2008
Indexing within a file system is a big deal, it basically allows for a tagging-like system when saving files, meaning you no longer have to save everything in sub folders to keep organised. You'll quickly find anything on your computer, and you don't need some Indexer Service running all the time in order to do it.