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Re: Is Microsoft Trying To Revive ReFS?

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On 2025-03-29, Paul <nospam@needed.invalid> wrote:
> On Fri, 3/28/2025 8:57 PM, Borax Man wrote:
>> ["Followup-To:" header set to comp.os.linux.advocacy.]
>> On 2025-03-28, Farley Flud <fsquared@fsquared.linux> wrote:
>>> On Thu, 27 Mar 2025 22:20:00 +0000, Lawrence D'Oliveiro wrote:
>>>
>>>>
>>>> NTFS is certainly showing its age. But it’s not clear that ReFS is
>>>> really enough to take Windows forward.
>>>>
>>>
>>> Whatever the case, it will be another proprietary format that GNU/Linux
>>> cannot (easily) access.
>>>
>>> IIRC, it tooks many years befor GNU/Linux was able to correctly access
>>> and write NTFS files.
>>>
>>> I still would not trust the Linux kernel module for writing NTFS even
>>> though it is regarded to be stable and free from error.
>>>
>>> In the not-so-rare times that I must interchange files between Winblows
>>> and GNU/Linux I will use either VFAT or EXFAT format.
>>>
>>>
>>>
>> 
>> Is there any particular experience that you had that made you distrust
>> the Linux NTFS driver?
>> 
>> I've found it quite robust, but that is just my experience.  Neverthess,
>> I do still choose exfat or if necessary, vfat for shared partitions.
>> 
>
> There is more than one NTFS driver now. There is one in kernel
> and one in FUSE. They're different. From different sources.
> Your newest distro may be doing something you did not expect
> or select yourself as a behavior.
>
> One knows something about more reparse points than the other.
> This means, when a reparse point is present, the label in the GUI
> will attest to that fact. The other driver tended to produce
> messages that were a bit deceptive about what was going on.
>
> This has no impact on a USB stick with a few files on it. Most
> of the bad behaviors are when using Linux to work on Windows OS volumes.
>
>     Paul

Ahh, I see.  My experience has been somewhat limited.  Only really used
it to occasionally access my old Windows partition, an XP one.  Nothing
too heavy or demanding.  I think using NTFS-3g, the Fuse driver.  Still
like you, I would much rather trust a native Linux filesystem while
using Linux.

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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
      Re: Is Microsoft Trying To Revive ReFS? Paul <nospam@needed.invalid> - 2025-03-29 00:38 -0400
        Re: Is Microsoft Trying To Revive ReFS? Borax Man <rotflol2@hotmail.com> - 2025-03-29 11:46 +0000
        Re: Is Microsoft Trying To Revive ReFS? Lawrence D'Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid> - 2025-03-29 22:20 +0000
          Re: Is Microsoft Trying To Revive ReFS? Borax Man <rotflol2@hotmail.com> - 2025-03-29 23:42 +0000

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