Linked by Thom Holwerda on Fri 23rd Oct 2009 21:13 UTC, submitted by poundsmack
John Siracusa, the Mac OS X guru who writes those insanely detailed and well-written Mac OS X reviews for Ars Technica, once told a story about the evolution of the HFS+ file system in Mac OS X - he said it was a struggle between the Mac guys who wanted the features found in BeOS' BFS, and the NEXT guys who didn't really like these features. In the end, the Mac guys won, and over the course of six years, Mac OS X reached feature parity - and a little more - with the BeOS (at the FS level).
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I will never use ext4. Use ext3 as a general purpose filesystem or XFS if you really need specific performance but don't use ext4 - it just isn't necessary. I won't use a distro that won't let you change the default filesystem.
While I respect Ted Tso's work over the years I'm afraid he's another developer who has got to the point where he is too wrapped up and proud to see the failings in his own code and those close to him. I don't care for his defensive tone over ALSA either.
Edited 2009-10-26 23:00 UTC