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Re: Is Microsoft Trying To Revive ReFS?

From Paul <nospam@needed.invalid>
Newsgroups comp.os.linux.advocacy, alt.comp.os.windows-11
Subject Re: Is Microsoft Trying To Revive ReFS?
Date 2025-03-27 20:25 -0400
Organization A noiseless patient Spider
Message-ID <vs4q9s$1f4r1$1@dont-email.me> (permalink)
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On Thu, 3/27/2025 6:26 PM, vallor wrote:
> On Thu, 27 Mar 2025 22:20:00 -0000 (UTC), Lawrence D'Oliveiro
> <ldo@nz.invalid> wrote in <vs4iug$186dc$1@dont-email.me>:
> 
>> Seems Microsoft is bringing back the option for ordinary Windows users
>> to format volumes as ReFS
>> <https://www.tomshardware.com/software/windows/new-advanced-filesystem-
> format-option-found-in-windows-11-preview-build-refs-supports-up-to-35-
> petabytes>.
>>
>> This filesystem made its first appearance years ago, but then Microsoft
>> began removing the option for using it from various non-“Enterprise”
>> versions of Windows where it had been introduced.
>>
>> NTFS is certainly showing its age. But it’s not clear that ReFS is
>> really enough to take Windows forward. It seems a bit lacklustre
>> compared to the options that have long been available on Linux, for
>> example.
> 
> I reported on ReFS a month or two ago, when I tried it with my (then)
> new Windows 11 Pro Workstation virtual host.
> 
> It wasn't resizable.  I wrote it off as a primitive toy, and reformated
> the partition with NTFS.
> 

It's got a lotta versions, but I bet not much has changed.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ReFS

   3.14: Default version formatted by Windows 11 (build 26047 and newer).[23]

And yeah, I just bought a 35 petabyte hard drive yesterday.
What a coincidence :-)

   Paul

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Is Microsoft Trying To Revive ReFS? Lawrence D'Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid> - 2025-03-27 22:20 +0000
  Re: Is Microsoft Trying To Revive ReFS? Joel <joelcrump@gmail.com> - 2025-03-27 18:26 -0400
  Re: Is Microsoft Trying To Revive ReFS? vallor <vallor@cultnix.org> - 2025-03-27 22:26 +0000
    Re: Is Microsoft Trying To Revive ReFS? Paul <nospam@needed.invalid> - 2025-03-27 20:25 -0400
      Re: Is Microsoft Trying To Revive ReFS? Daniel70 <daniel47@eternal-september.org> - 2025-03-28 20:00 +1100
        Re: Is Microsoft Trying To Revive ReFS? ...w¡ñ§±¤ñ  <winstonmvp@gmail.com> - 2025-03-28 06:14 -0700
      Re: Is Microsoft Trying To Revive ReFS? Lawrence D'Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid> - 2025-03-28 21:23 +0000
        Re: Is Microsoft Trying To Revive ReFS? Paul <nospam@needed.invalid> - 2025-03-29 00:29 -0400
          Re: Is Microsoft Trying To Revive ReFS? Lawrence D'Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid> - 2025-03-29 06:43 +0000
            Re: Is Microsoft Trying To Revive ReFS? Paul <nospam@needed.invalid> - 2025-03-29 03:18 -0400
              Re: Is Microsoft Trying To Revive ReFS? Lawrence D'Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid> - 2025-03-29 22:17 +0000
        Re: Is Microsoft Trying To Revive ReFS? Char Jackson <none@none.invalid> - 2025-03-29 00:29 -0500
          Re: Is Microsoft Trying To Revive ReFS? Lawrence D'Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid> - 2025-03-29 06:43 +0000
            Re: Is Microsoft Trying To Revive ReFS? Paul <nospam@needed.invalid> - 2025-03-29 03:21 -0400
              Re: Is Microsoft Trying To Revive ReFS? Lawrence D'Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid> - 2025-03-29 22:13 +0000
  Re: Is Microsoft Trying To Revive ReFS? Farley Flud <fsquared@fsquared.linux> - 2025-03-28 10:40 +0000
    Re: Is Microsoft Trying To Revive ReFS? Paul <nospam@needed.invalid> - 2025-03-28 09:31 -0400
    Re: Is Microsoft Trying To Revive ReFS? Borax Man <rotflol2@hotmail.com> - 2025-03-29 00:57 +0000

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