On Sun, Mar 20, 2011 at 5:45 AM, jdd
Le 19/03/2011 22:31, todd rme a écrit :
But why does it have to matter to a majority of users? If it helps just 1% of users, but doesn't hurt anybody, why wouldn't we change?
because this part of the users already know how to use it, so they don't need the change.
average users don't care, but a bit less average ones had a lot of work learning etx3, then 4 and wont like to have to learn again.
I lived this with lpr versus cups, xorg automation, kde3 versus kde4 and it's pretty umpleasant to change something that works and you know by something that works but you don't know, because anything working is always "almost" working, so one always have to trick a setup at a moment or an other, and seeing it's no more what you know is bad.
What, exactly, is there to learn?
Compressing directories is pretty common if you want to save space.
and it's in many cases plenty stupid. Only text can be compressed. The large files for now are video or photos and these are already compressed. The net compress gain on our time of cheap large hard drives is really not visible (or we have to see convincing statistics). A compressed FS may also be more difficult to recover, if ever a problem come, because one have to use compatible drivers.
There are plenty of reasons why someone would have large amounts of text. Businesses, for instance. I have massive amounts of text because I am in scientific research. In fact the vast majority of one of my hard drives is text, tens of gigabytes of it.
Encryption is especially popular with laptops since they can be stolen easily.
yes, this is a good point
Incremental dumps makes backups much more efficient and effective. Linux is already suffering from a lack of good backup solutions.
what? there are so many... the problem is to setup a good policy for every people needs (each people have to use a personal policy to acheive a good result)
Just because there are lots of something doesn't mean any of them are particularly good. And even if they are, an improvement would still likely help a lot of people.
And overall it will provide many of the features of LLVM directly in the filesystem.
this is a good point. also the snapshot feature could be an enormous advantage if it works like VirtualBox snapshots. But is it really possible to be as flexible as that? Launching a snapshot for games and an other snapshot for work?
I don't know, but I didn't mention snapshots at all because I don't know enough about them. -Todd -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-factory+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-factory+help@opensuse.org