Linked by Thom Holwerda on Mon 17th Mar 2008 07:36 UTC
"Computer platform advocacy can bubble up in the strangest places. In a recent interview at a conference in Australia, Linux creator Linus Torvalds got the Macintosh community in an uproar when he described Mac OS X's file system as 'complete and utter crap, which is scary'. What did he mean? What is a 'file system' anyway, and why would we care why one is better than another? At first glance, it might seem that file systems are boring technical widgetry that would never impact our lives directly, but in fact, the humble file system has a huge influence on how we use and interact with computers."
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2006-01-04
Easy to read, lots of info, all important systems mentioned ( no classic computers .. Amiga cannot be killed and thus is still alive
)
It generally makes a good case of showing that progress in filesystem tech is really REALLY slow. ( I still think Linux should get something ZFS like soonish tho )
@Thom: Writing one of these cant be easy .. just look around and you will see that nearly everybody fails ( most of them miserably )