Linked by Thom Holwerda on Wed 4th Nov 2009 16:48 UTC
Linux continues to innovate in the area of file systems. It supports the largest variety of file systems of any operating system. It also provides cutting-edge file system technology. Two new file systems that are making their way into Linux include the NiLFS(2) log-structured file system and the exofs object-based storage system. Discover the purpose behind these two new file systems and the advantages that they bring.
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Right, but what do you mean, "Linux should put it's efforts elsewhere"? Linux isn't a person or organisation - it's a piece of software developed by a bunch of individuals all working for their own (or their employers) different purposes.
Reading the article, these two filesystems appear to have been contributed by companies who presumably needed new filesystems for whatever reason. So it's not exactly productive to tell those people they should have been working on something else instead.
For better or worse, that's the open-source way - people work on whatever they want to work on. It's what you get, when all of your contributors are volunteers.