Re: [SLE] SuSE 8.2 -- What is the best file system?
Hi again Anders,
Only in the technical details. I believe the priciples still apply. >Lots of projects living and thriving will produce lots of different >ideas. The best of these ideas will over time evolve, possibly into still >new projects, each better than the ones that came before it. It's just >the nature of the beast. One single project only leaves room for one >single set of ideas.
Imagine yourself waking up in the middle of the night with a >brilliant new idea for a file system that would give 10 times better >performance than any other for one specific purpose. Should you not be allowed >to pursue that idea? Should you still be forced to solve bug #xxxxx in ext3's bugzilla. That's not the way forward. Maintenance of existing projects is needed and vital, but so is new projects with new ideas.
Good point. But a single standard is important. If you have too many ideas floating around being implemented then you could have total chaos. End up having 20 different programs that all do the same thing incorrectly.
Focusing all attention on one project instead of 4 or 5 would be much better for the software community in the long run.
No, in fact I think it's just the opposite. It may be better in the short run, but in the long run I think it's the way to certain >death.
Certain death? Thats what microsoft did, and I don't think they are dead right now. As a matter of fact isn't Bill Gates one of the richest people in the world? ~~Nick _______________________________________________ Join Excite! - http://www.excite.com The most personalized portal on the Web!
On April 13, 2003 03:58 pm, Nicholas Parsons wrote:
Certain death? Thats what microsoft did, and I don't think they are dead right now. As a matter of fact isn't Bill Gates one of the richest people in the world?
Just remember. 640k of memory is enough for everybody. Nick
On Sun, 2003-04-13 at 21:58, Nicholas Parsons wrote:
But a single standard is important.
There is a single standard. It's called the file system API, and all linux file systems implement it. That's why you don't need a specific version of "cp" for XFS and one for reiser.
If you have too many ideas floating around being implemented then you could have total chaos. End up having 20 different programs that all do the same thing incorrectly.
Not "end up". If you are in that situation, eventually one project will get it right, and the rest will adopt it. But in the case of file systems you have 20+ projects, each doing the same thing in its own way, all of them correct but with different levels of performance.
Focusing all attention on one project instead of 4 or 5 would be much better for the software community in the long run.
No, in fact I think it's just the opposite. It may be better in the short run, but in the long run I think it's the way to certain >death.
Certain death? Thats what microsoft did, and I don't think they are dead right now. As a matter of fact isn't Bill Gates one of the richest people in the world?
The long run for them hasn't arrived yet. And it's actually not what Microsoft did. They are one company working on one set of projects. Saying that Microsoft focused on one idea is like saying KDE focused on one idea. There are other file systems for win32, they're just not coming from Microsoft.
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