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Happy 30th Birthday "New Technology" File System! Thanks for 30 years of demonstrating Linux superiority with a gap that widens with every new kernel release 👍

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

ReFS still is not supported for use as a boot (C:) drive, but it's used extensively in enterprise environments for VHD storage and as a backup target.

Snapshotting and merging is much faster because of "Fast Cloning." It also has something called "integrity streams" which can be used to tell if data has been corrupted.

I don't understand this all at a deep level, but it seems promising.