Re: Is Microsoft Trying To Revive ReFS?

On 2025-03-29, Lawrence D'Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid> wrote:

On Sat, 29 Mar 2025 00:38:21 -0400, Paul wrote:
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There is more than one NTFS driver now. There is one in kernel and one
in FUSE. They're different. From different sources.

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I think the kernel one is still lacking in features compared to ntfs-3g,
which is the FUSE-based driver.
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Some people automatically assume that a kernel-based driver is going to
offer better performance than one that runs in user space. But I can’t see
big enterprise shops, moving heavily into Linux, continuing to run
mission-critical workloads on NTFS volumes, let’s face it.

The fuse filesystem is fast, it just uses up a bit more CPU to get that
speed.