Re: Is Microsoft Trying To Revive ReFS?

On Fri, 3/28/2025 6:40 AM, Farley Flud wrote:

On Thu, 27 Mar 2025 22:20:00 +0000, Lawrence D'Oliveiro wrote:
 

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NTFS is certainly showing its age. But it’s not clear that ReFS is
really enough to take Windows forward.
>

 
Whatever the case, it will be another proprietary format that GNU/Linux
cannot (easily) access.
 
IIRC, it tooks many years befor GNU/Linux was able to correctly access
and write NTFS files.
 
I still would not trust the Linux kernel module for writing NTFS even
though it is regarded to be stable and free from error.
 
In the not-so-rare times that I must interchange files between Winblows
and GNU/Linux I will use either VFAT or EXFAT format.

Paragon is offering a Linux driver for ReFS.
Even though the ReFS has no public spec for it.

I whipped up a quick test.

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I don't think anything has changed.

Partition shrink is not offered (in Windows File Explorer).

   Paul