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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 2025-03-28 09:31 -0400
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On Fri, 3/28/2025 6:40 AM, Farley Flud 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.

Paragon is offering a Linux driver for ReFS.
Even though the ReFS has no public spec for it.

I whipped up a quick test.

   [Picture]

    https://i.postimg.cc/bNfxLZpS/Re-FS-On-W11-Insider.gif

I don't think anything has changed.

Partition shrink is not offered (in Windows File Explorer).

   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
      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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