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Comment by PaulHoule

13 years ago

I support conservative engineering for file systems.

NTFS is highly reliable and Microsoft wants to build on that success with ReFS. In years of working with NTFS I've never had a serious filesystem wreck (although I did have one that was never quite the same after I made a few hundred million small files)

The NTFS story isn't that different from the ext(2|3|4) story on Linux. ext-N filesystems are boring and not particularly fast, but they're reliable. I've tried other filesystems on Linux but have often had wrecks or noticed data corruption.

I like boring filesystems.