Re: Is Microsoft Trying To Revive ReFS?

On Sat, 29 Mar 2025 03:18:39 -0400, Paul wrote:

Storage Spaces is a *Microsoft* technology. I'm not skilled
enough to give you a lesson in all the options. It is used
on servers. You might find one user in the Windows group
who uses it for home arrays/pools.

I can remember it was in Windows Home Server 1.0, which was Microsoft’s
failed attempt to compete with cheap NAS boxes running Linux. And then
removed in 2.0, to the great unhappiness of the handful of users who
wasted their money on the Microsoft product.

In WinXP era, it bought the Presidents Software defragmenter, put it in
WinXP.

I thought a defragger was only introduced in Windows Vista. I remember
because SSDs were just starting to become popular around then, and users
discovered that Vista was shortening the life of their drives.

Windows 7 fixed the defragger to ignore SSDs.

The Linux folks fixed the problem just by designing their system to be
more resistant to fragmentation in the first place.