Not That Fresh System
It was new at the time. Anyway, what is the best file system to use nowadays? zfs?
ZFS is brilliant and all, as long as you only add disks, too bad if you want to rearrange your disks, you have to buy a new set of disks and move the data.
Btrfs is much better for home use, combine your old 3, 4 and 8tb disks into one, buy a new 16tb disk you add it and remove the 3tb disk.
Depends on usecase. Just works: ext3/4.
I think zfs is very popular with the honeserver crowd, but its not worth the hassle for desktop use. If you want something more fancy than ext4 there is btrfs which lets you take snapshots and checksums the data to detect corruption
New? Still can’t read ext4 fs.
Hey! 30 isn’t that old… Right?
But they change UI design every time Bill farts
It’s newer than FAT (1977)
The guy in charge of thinking of a new acronym probably retired 10 years ago.
It was probably Dave or somebody he worked with lol. Super interesting videos talking about tech stuff, windows, and what MS was like during his time
There’s actually a retired microsoft engineer who makes very interesting videos about these kinds of things: https://www.youtube.com/@DavesGarage
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ReFS is a thing, but apparently not intended as a replacement (?)
https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows-server/storage/refs/refs-overview
Apparently Microsoft is going to move win 11 to refs but idk when. For all we know it might be in windows 12 only
Wasn’t that supposed to be come out with Longhorn? Wouldn’t hold my breath waiting for it.
Good to know.
Haha, there’s still things embedded deep in code and in CPUs that go way back to the 80s. If only y’all knew. It’s all shit built on top of older shit, built on top of even older shit with kludges and hacks to glue it all together. Know why Windows has five different ways to access the same setting? Because if they get rid of the older methods, they break a ton of other shit that depends on it too. A house of cards or a Jenga tower.
A modern PC can STILL natively boot a DOS floppy from 1986 in legacy BIOS mode because of this.
Theres also examples in the corporate world where some companies are STILL running 70s mainframes, and use shiny new PCs as front end terminals that just connect to the same old backend.
This is super interesting and I had NO IDEA! Makes me very curious how much more efficient an entire fresh start might be with new tech.
Fresh starts are always tempting, but they mean throwing out a ton of babies with that bathwater. Re-making old mistakes and solving them with fresh kludges in your nice, new, clean solution.
Like everything else in engineering, it’s a balancing act.
Yeah I can’t even think of any recent CPUs that aren’t based on previous designs. Even Apple’s new M1 is an ARM derivative, which itself is based on an ancient computer from the 80s known as the “Acorn”.
It’s a bit poetic. They were directly competing with Apple at the time, and Acorn named themselves such so that they would appear in front of Apple in the phone book. Of course, they haven’t existed in a long time, but 35-40 years later, Apple decides to use the great-grandson of Acorn’s CPU in their new products.
CPU architecture wise, you can see the difference between cluttered, old x86 and ARM or even RISC-V chips. They just run so much more efficient, as you can tell with your phone lasting a day or two, or apple silicon consuming a fraction for the same performance.
An example for the ancient backend would be the flight pathing system DAL. (Wendover video)
This is one of the reasons why Linux doesn’t have a stable in-kernel API (or ABI for that matter): https://www.kernel.org/doc/Documentation/process/stable-api-nonsense.rst
Hell, the world still runs on an instruction set first designed for a 1976 CPU
Yeah, just don’t look deeper into symlinks in NTFS . And don’t look for extended file attributes in task scheduler.
ISA still exists on new, modern hardware.
https://www.tomshardware.com/news/isa-slot-tpm-soundblaster-header-pc
The control panel peaked at windows 7 though
everything Windows peaked with Windows 7.
Imma gonna stop you there and say the peak was Windows 2000.
Windows 2000 was definitely peak, for its time.
but Windows 7 eclipsed it, and remains the best microsoft OS… I will fight and die on this hill <3
If we ignore the spontaneous BSOD, Windows 98 had the best performance among all systems lol
Seriously, each new windows update just adds a fresh new coat of paint on top, as if to make finding the actually useful win 7 and xp menus, that are still there, harder.
Linux Mint feels to me like what windows 10/11 should’ve been
The hardest problem in computer science is naming things. And counting things.
Never name anything with “New” in the name, it will look silly after a few years.
New York be like:
Yeah, new technology because it was the file system for Windows NT, which originally stood for… Windows New Technology.
Later Microsoft decided to just use NT as a moniker without any indication of it’s origins.
how dare you bring this common sense to the guffahery!
Me and my mates used to say it was short for “Not Tested”. Oh, how we laughed
I mean, it’s still way better than Fat, but incredibly incompatible with a lot of things still and new usb drives are always FAT. Shame ntfs didn’t catch on more.
External storage is always FAT, because everything can read FAT, so it just makes life easier for file transfers.
Not because NTFS/ext4/etc doesnt work on usb sticks.
Yeah, but that’s the shame. Ntfs been around for decades, would be great for usb as it allows faster transfer speeds and more secure. Would have been nice if more devices included it so it wasn’t such a compatibility barrier.
I’d rather have universal compatibility myself.
besides, its not like you cant reformat it to NTFS. They just come stock as fat so you can access them on any device.
