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From: jgd@cix.co.uk (John Dallman)
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Subject: Re: MS Access
Date: Wed, 14 Aug 2024 09:19 +0100 (BST)
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In article <v9go5j$3q64$1@dont-email.me>, ldo@nz.invalid (Lawrence
D'Oliveiro) wrote:
> On Tue, 13 Aug 2024 23:21 +0100 (BST), John Dallman wrote:
> > There is a shortage of other filesystem types in practical usage 
> > on Windows.
> Whatever happened to ReFS? Seems like Microsoft has given up on 
> creating a next-generation filesystem for Windows ...

Looks like ReFS is still in development, but people aren't deploying it
much. My employer uses NetApp filers in preference to Windows fileservers,
since they have very good RAID and operate well with both Windows and
Linux. They work well with other Unix-like systems, too, but very few
parts of the company use macOS, or any other Unix-ish OS. 

NTFS, like ext3 and ext4, is showing its age by some standards, but still
works well. The drive letters problem on Windows is readily solved by
Microsoft's Distributed File System, which seems weird at first, but
works OK.

<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Distributed_File_System_(Microsoft)>

John