File systems

Two things I am interested in here please.

Comparison and details of various file systems.

What would make the perfect file system?

Any takers?

 

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The most perfect filing system would be one that has an extremely high compression ratio, ergonomic encoding and absolutely "INCOMPATIBLE" with Microsoft.

 

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I believe Stryderunknown has made his opinion quite clear.

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My favorite that ive actually used is reiserfs: http://www.namesys.com/

Its a journaling filesystem that Ive been using on my main linux partition. Its fast and so far no data lost. Ive been using it mainly for more than a year. No fsck ups so far

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Ive used other journaling filesystems that disapointed and led to some interesting times with cfdisk, fsck and the remount flag (may i never see it again) for the mount program

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Perfect file system? No wasted space, interoperability, speed of course, transparent remote (encrypted) access, linking of course, take a look at the reiser site, seems like what the author has in mind is a kind of distributed database, a file system to end all file systems. A good idea in itself, I just wonder what the permission system would be like

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There is a trade off between speed of retrieval, verses reliability. And speed verses "waste" of space. On the other hand some are slow, unreliable and wasteful and mickeysoft products. The perfect file system would be one that avoids these trade offs.