Ubuntu on Windows

Posted Apr 1, 2016 13:23 UTC (Fri) by madscientist (subscriber, #16861)
In reply to: Ubuntu on Windows by zlynx
Parent article: Ubuntu on Windows

You mean, the API that Microsoft has deprecated and is actively discouraging people from using?

> Microsoft strongly recommends developers investigate utilizing the discussed alternatives (or in some cases, investigate other alternatives) rather than adopting an API platform which may not be available in future versions of Windows.

Ubuntu on Windows

Posted Apr 4, 2016 11:05 UTC (Mon) by nye (subscriber, #51576) [Link]

>You mean, the API that Microsoft has deprecated and is actively discouraging people from using?

It's generally not a great idea to rely on a specific feature of one filesystem anyway, even if that filesystem *seems* to be married to the platform. I think NTFS itself will be slowly deprecated over the coming years, in favour of ReFS, which doesn't support the same transactional API and may never do so.

I'm pretty impressed by ReFS so far. It seems (based on admittedly limited testing on my part, where I didn't look at performance) a lot like what you'd expect to see as a result of investigating ZFS, paying particular attention to its weaknesses, and then throwing endless piles of cash at coming up with a competitive response.