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NTFS turns 30 years old today! I hear it's still in use by some crufty old legacy operating systems 😁 (en.wikipedia.org)

submitted 1 year ago by riskable to c/[email protected]

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As a full time desktop Linux user since 1999 (the actual year of the Linux desktop, I swear) I wish all you Windows folks the best of luck on the next clean install 👍

...and Happy 30th Birthday "New Technology" File System!

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[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 year ago (3 children)

How old is ext4?

[–] BlueBockser 17 points 1 year ago

15 years.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

XFS, the default filesystem in Red Hat, is older than NTFS. Released 1994.

I'll say this, the previous admin of one of the Linux servers I support set up RAID-0 striping for the main data slice (must have been dropped on their head as a child or something). Two drives, and one of the drives developed bad sectors, but I was still able to recover 95% of the data before it shit the bed completely. So, XFS is apparently quite resilient, or I got lucky.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago

Modern Linux systems are slowly moving toward Btrfs at least... which is pretty young compared to ext4 and Ntfs.