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sounds very much like the "current generation" to me, ZFS has done just about everything that article covers for a while, and it supports most of this too:

"The NTFS features we have chosen to not support in ReFS are: named streams, object IDs, short names, compression, file level encryption (EFS), user data transactions, sparse, hard-links, extended attributes, and quotas."



You can also actually boot from ZFS (the code for this is actually GPL'ed in grub), and many of the caching features like ZIL and L2ARC are "third party opportunties" whereas they're built into ZFS.

I wonder if/when this will actually take off - most Microsoft "edge case" solutions have trouble gaining adopters. If it gets boot off mirror support, it has a chance.


Too bad they can't just use ZFS, but, NIH and all.


I think Microsoft's legal department would freak out about having a (even if "slightly") copyleft licensed software in the Windows core.




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