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That's the setup I have - and HATE it

That's the setup I have - and HATE it

Posted Jan 8, 2009 20:11 UTC (Thu) by roblucid (subscriber, #48964)
In reply to: That's the setup I have - and HATE it by dlang
Parent article: Btrfs aims for the mainline

> defining the redundancy for each file as it is saved will also require
> changes to every single program out there, which is very unlikely to happen.

Probably a lot of ppl still expect filesystems to be fast, and having every node in the hierarchy and all files, having some different form of backing storage depending on redundancy requirements... *sucks through teeth* sounds expensive to me.

The "I want to know nothing" and just have it managed by some kind of Storage management system that takes care of details, does sound a better requirement to me.

Actually I don't think "every program" would need modifying, as when files are created, they can inherit the characteristics of the parent directory, as would new sub-directories.


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