Recent Windows 11 Insider builds include support for ReFS, the Resilient File System. The file system is currently only available in Windows server operating systems, but not in client systems.
Resilient File System is designed to “maximize data availability, scale efficiently to large data sets across diverse workloads, and provide data integrity with resiliency to corruption” according to Microsoft.
I doubt ReFS will replace NTFS any time soon, but with Windows’ lacklustre support for file systems, it’s always interesting to see something new come up.
More details on this available here:
https://windowsreport.com/windows-11-refs/
I think they are getting there. Microsoft is all about backwards compatibility. Unlike Apple, they try their best to keep old software humming on new OS builds and features.
I have ReFS on my secondary SSD on my laptop. I have it running with my OneDrive, download managers and software development tools (git, vscode, .net, pypy, etc) with no issues. Looks like they are close to replacing NTFS, but wouldn’t be surprised that it would at least take another year.
Just one year? I think that it will take much more. 😀 But who knows.
They seem to be close to enabling it on Windows 11. But knowing MS, they may save it as a feature for their top SKUs and only make it available to the lesser SKUs in their next major release. Fingers crossed they would at least bring full ReFS support to Windows Pro for Workstations soon. Like I’ve mentioned, I already have it on my my secondary drive. Just not on my system drive.
Lots of games and programs crashes or refuses to run in windows 10 and 11 that previously worked in windows 7 and older. Perhaps they should port wine to windows so old programs become usable again.
My old games catalog in Steam from almost 10 years ago works just fine. There are security patches that disable some legacy Windows features from time to time. I had a multifunction printer software that failed to work because SMB v1.0 was disabled. Had to update the printer firmware and used their newer software to resolve that. The printer is 10 years old and has been discontinued, but HP provides extended support for business customers.
adkilla,
That’s fortunate, I’ve seen lots of unsupported hardware including multifunction printers become ewaste after windows updates. Sometimes microsoft still supports drivers on windows update when the manufacturer won’t, but these can be inferior/incomplete and don’t include software.
If it’s because of DRM (that’s invasive and requires elevated priviliges, to do nasty things, that normally[in the past] only viruses could do), then fuck that.
It’s then DRM problem, not Windows.
But if it’s not DRM, then youcan try running this software under wine(it works even under Windows, but under linux it will give greater performance and compatibility [because linux/UNIX/MacOS is main target for WINE)
So what does ReFS do that NTFS don’t? I know the last time they wanted to get rid of NFTS (WinFS) they never could make the features that would have made it compelling like smart search work so they gave up and reading TFA I couldn’t see any real “it does this better” listed so what EXACTLY makes it any better than NTFS?
bassbeast,
For starters it has “bit rot” detection and scrubbing to fix them from a replica. That is a very important feature if the data has any value at all. (Those skipping videos and purple jpegs are symptoms of randomly flipped bits).
GOOD, hopefully they bother making it available on clients at all let alone soon. I know they probably make a lot of money off Windows Rot, but it is beyond pathetic that it’s still a thing in the year 2023.
My system is running slow the day I installed Windows 11. Can somebody explain why is this happening and what to do to overcome it?