Re:Windows needs a change in priorities
by flatiron on Sunday March 20, 2022 @07:48PM
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https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows-server/storage/refs...
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ReFS has the stink of death all over it. It's been the "next generation" filesystem for Windows since 2012, with no signs of ever graduating to being the current filesystem -- in fact, a 2017 update to Windows 10 removed the ability for most desktop systems to create ReFS volumes.
ReFS is a poor man's version of btrfs much in the same way btrfs is a poor man's version of ZFS. It's also apparent that ReFS is basically abandoned.
It's not abandoned, but the intended use case is not consumer use: