I'm more upset there are no filesystems where I can organize files by applying labels to them, similar to how one can apply labels to email in Gmail.
Why are there no true cross-platform filesystems?
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Re: Why are there no true cross-platform filesystems?
#22>BTRFS
There's a pipe dream. It'd be great but I can't possibly imagine it happening. I have to think that any spare FS effort is being spent on ZFS (OS X) or ReFS (Win8/Server2012). I'm still rocking out with a 12TB RAID10 array and another 6TB RAID10 array that I gave to my parents. Haven't had any issues yet.
Re: Why are there no true cross-platform filesystems?
#23The two popular platforms are mostly closed to external contributions, that's why there aren't any "true cross-platform file systems" that aren't decades out of date like FAT32.
Re: Why are there no true cross-platform filesystems?
#24About HFS: You seem to dismiss it a bit quickly. Trial versions of 'MacDrive' on Windows have always worked very solidly for me - if I were still using bootcamp I would pay for it. However the bigger question IMO is: Do we really need native windows nowadays? If we ban windows into VMs and only use OSX + linux natively, HFS is indeed a solid option. The only thing hindering us so far from using windows VM-only was ga…
I prefer things vice versa. I know it's very hipster to hate Windows, but if I stick OS X and Linux into VirtualBox, I can then use Samba on Linux and OS X already supports SMB. Now everybody can talk to each other.
Well, the thing about OSX is that it is heavily reliant on in house media codecs and drivers that I find haven't been virtualized very successfully so far. Furthermore, I find that the (paid) virtual host desktop solutions on OSX are much better in terms of performance and integration than their windows counterparts - probably because of higher demand, possibly also because of architectural reasons.
But maybe you have found a way and you can then prove me wrong: Does iWorks work in your virtual box VM? Does XCode including iOS simulator work well? Is the performance acceptable? How about the iLive suit? How about unity development? How about the clipboard - does it keep its 'PDF snippet' functionality (no rasterization of fonts, original quality images)?
See, there's tons of OSX exclusive software that's quite demanding in terms of media and hardware acceleration, simply because of the OS's highly integrated character. Unless someone can show me a solid OSX-in-a-box I doubt that it's a good experience.
Re: Why are there no true cross-platform filesystems?
#25I think the author's use case is actually quite rare these days. I personally don't dual boot any more, much preferring to run other OSes in a virtual machine. Then I don't care what filesystems they use internally, all shared data is shared via the VM's interface anyway.
I think that's the way of the future, not cross-platform filesystems.
Re: Why are there no true cross-platform filesystems?
#26I think the real, but unhelpful answer is "supply and demand". Most filesystems are used by only one operating system at a time. If two operating systems need to share files, they're usually on different machines, so it's simpler to copy the files or provide a network interface to them, rather than share disk-level access. Getting different OS makers to standardize (and therefore slow innovation) on something as perf…
Is the innovation fast now?
Right! So imagine how much slower it would be if the process involved getting the Linux community to agree with Microsoft on a standard. I realize it's not quite the bad old days anymore, but still.
Re: Why are there no true cross-platform filesystems?
#27Earlier quoted context omitted.
I prefer things vice versa. I know it's very hipster to hate Windows, but if I stick OS X and Linux into VirtualBox, I can then use Samba on Linux and OS X already supports SMB. Now everybody can talk to each other.
What's wrong with Windows in a VM? Linux can share the files using samba as well.
Maybe he plays performance demanding games in his spare time or wants full performance out of Windows only 3d tools and IDEs (Visual Studio)? Just a guess. Only reasons I would want to use Windows touching hardware versus a VM.
One can do GPU passthrough with Xen[1] if hardware allows, but that's a lot of footwork to set up and configure. Performance near native through from reports of those I know that have done it. Ubisoft gave a demonstration a while ago of Crysis running through Xen and GPU passthrough[2].
Re: Why are there no true cross-platform filesystems?
#28Because files are "cross-platform".)
Re: Why are there no true cross-platform filesystems?
#29use HDFS.
Re: Why are there no true cross-platform filesystems?
#30I think the author's use case is actually quite rare these days. I personally don't dual boot any more, much preferring to run other OSes in a virtual machine. Then I don't care what filesystems they use internally, all shared data is shared via the VM's interface anyway. I think that's the way of the future, not cross-platform filesystems.
While I try to do this often. My macbook even has Win8 and Ubuntu as VMs on it. Running Xcode or Visual Studio in a VM can get pretty laggy, even when I give the guest OS a considerable chunk of my host resources.
I have an i7 920 and 16 gigs of ram, and I have about 50% to the guest, and Visual Studio and Xcode, along with simulators is pretty messy. Running a VM within a VM can do that.
Its the only reason I do a triple boot like this. Otherwise, I would definitely go pure VMs.
Though Parallels on my laptop does a bangup job with Visual Studio.
But then again, the main problem is huge files and lots of writes.