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Is there an optimal filesystem or is it all just trade offs? And how far if we come since you know when we were first creating file systems plan nine or whatever to now like it’s as there been any sort of technological Leap like killer algorithm it’s really improve things?

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An optimal filesystem... for what?

There is no single filesystem which is optimized for everything, so you need to specify things like

cross-platform transportability, network transparency, hardware interfaces, hardware capability, reliability requirements, cost-effectiveness, required features, expected workload, licensing

and what the track record is in the real world.

It's all tradeoffs.

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