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From: Paul <nospam@needed.invalid>
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Subject: Re: Is Microsoft Trying To Revive ReFS?
Date: Thu, 27 Mar 2025 20:25:31 -0400
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On Thu, 3/27/2025 6:26 PM, vallor wrote:
> On Thu, 27 Mar 2025 22:20:00 -0000 (UTC), Lawrence D'Oliveiro
> <ldo@nz.invalid> wrote in <vs4iug$186dc$1@dont-email.me>:
> 
>> Seems Microsoft is bringing back the option for ordinary Windows users
>> to format volumes as ReFS
>> <https://www.tomshardware.com/software/windows/new-advanced-filesystem-
> format-option-found-in-windows-11-preview-build-refs-supports-up-to-35-
> petabytes>.
>>
>> This filesystem made its first appearance years ago, but then Microsoft
>> began removing the option for using it from various non-“Enterprise”
>> versions of Windows where it had been introduced.
>>
>> NTFS is certainly showing its age. But it’s not clear that ReFS is
>> really enough to take Windows forward. It seems a bit lacklustre
>> compared to the options that have long been available on Linux, for
>> example.
> 
> I reported on ReFS a month or two ago, when I tried it with my (then)
> new Windows 11 Pro Workstation virtual host.
> 
> It wasn't resizable.  I wrote it off as a primitive toy, and reformated
> the partition with NTFS.
> 

It's got a lotta versions, but I bet not much has changed.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ReFS

   3.14: Default version formatted by Windows 11 (build 26047 and newer).[23]

And yeah, I just bought a 35 petabyte hard drive yesterday.
What a coincidence :-)

   Paul