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The discussion and complaints are mostly about Linux filesystems.

It would be interesting to know how well BSD FFS does and how well ZFS does. Not a whole lot said about Windows either (my anecdotal experiences with NTFS have been pretty good).

The article does touch on one very serious problem faced by all filesystems, and that is the underlying hardware often lies to the OS. That problem will probably get worse before it gets better. Specifically, flash devices have very complex firmware that is often buggy. Also flash devices do so much more to data (e.g. moving data around for wear leveling).



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