Why and when I need create a new file system on Windows other than FAT or NTFS?
This problem seems interesting.
This problem seems interesting.
Okay, this sounds incredible - is this an actual doable thing here?
These days, dropbox, drive and many other similar services provide a much more straightforward mapping to a storage service.
On any case NTFS feels a lot outdate against any other FS, plus It helps a lot to the people (like me) that works half time on Linux, half time on Windows. Instead of keep the shared data on NTFS, I could dream of using BTRFs and keep a time machine like system using snapshots....
Sorry I don't want to nitpick but just in case someone is considering it.. Do your research about filesystem first. ZFS has no equal at this time.
(Open)ZFS, on the other hand, has ten years of enterprise production use under its belt. And versioned filesystem and feature flags, so the latest OpenZFS can read all its previous versions (and ignore unknown feature flags) without breaking backward compatibility. Like the other commenter stated, it has no equal right now. Closest thing to ZFS, conceptually, is the Oracle automatic storage management (ASM). While ASM is available on Windows, ZFS is not, but FUSE might actually let you run it. Might.
Examples of possible use cases:
- Mount a zip file as a drive letter
- Mount an ftp site as a drive letter
- Mount an Android device as a drive letter
In all the above cases, there's ways to view zip files, ftp sites, and Android devices in Explorer; but you can not open these files in any application you want unless they are copied to a local disk.