The NOVA filesystem
The NOVA filesystem
Posted Aug 5, 2017 17:45 UTC (Sat) by nix (subscriber, #2304)In reply to: The NOVA filesystem by alison
Parent article: The NOVA filesystem
We can all look forward to the day when userspace borks itself, and we reboot to find that userspace is still borked.Well, that's exactly what we have in the present day: bork the filesystem, reboot, and it's still going to be borked. NOVA's just another filesystem. Sure, the storage is directly addressable and probably insanely fast, but it's not some fundamentally new abstraction, and the 'bork an important filesystem and reboot will not save you' properly is just the same as it is on present-day filesystems.
Posted Aug 7, 2017 5:05 UTC (Mon)
by alison (subscriber, #63752)
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Sorry for being unclear. I was thinking more that having 'memory' and 'storage on filesystems' as distinct advantages and disadvantages. Blurring the distinction between them will have many consequences, some of which are unpleasant and perhaps unanticipated.
The NOVA filesystem
>bork the filesystem, reboot, and it's still going to be borked.