Star NILFS: a File System to Make SSDs Scream
Linked by Thom Holwerda on Thu 4th Jun 2009 11:12 UTC, submitted by linuxmag
Linux The 2.6.30 kernel is chock full of next-gen file systems. One such example is NILFS, a new log-structured file system that dramatically improves write performance.
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RE: A slightly off-topic rant
by TObYv on Sat 6th Jun 2009 23:27 UTC in reply to "A slightly off-topic rant"
TObYv
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2008-08-25

..as I know full well I'll always end up using FAT32 out of necessity..


Fat16 is still a patent-free option, for drives <2Gb.

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Laurence Member since:
2007-03-26

Fat16 is still a patent-free option, for drives <2GB


My problem with FAT32 wasn't the patents* (you could use FAT32 patent free if you're happy to loose long filename support and a couple of other work arounds), it's teh fact that it's massively outdated and pretty much an all round crappy FS by todays standards. So Fat16 would only inflame the situation

plus, SSD or not, who actually uses drives smaller than 2GB these days?

* though I did meantion patents in my opening post, it was more in reference to how MS have a vested interest in keeping people locked into FAT32 rather than the patent itself being the FAT32's drawback.

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