XFS In Linux 4.12 Adds GETFSMAP Support

[phoronix]

Phoronix: XFS In Linux 4.12 Adds GETFSMAP Support

The XFS file-system changes have been submitted for Linux 4.12 and includes one main feature change...

http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=XFS-Linux-4.12-GETFSMAP

[Jumbotron]

Cool....I would hope that Debian and likewise Ubuntu would adopt and make standard XFS as the default file system and not Ext.

XFS is THE enterprise standard file system for both Red Hat and Suse. Now that it seems that the Linux world is getting its act together by coalescing around known good standards like XFS and Gnome its time for Debian and Ubuntu to step up and do the same. That way Linux can show a more unified front against Microsoft and Apple.

Fragmentation kills. This does not mean that by settling on standards also kills innovation which of course through the open source paradigm is impossible...it does mean that there will be more opportunity for adoption by a wider crowd which lends to a type of momentum which can help make inroads into those markets still dominated by Windows and Mac.

This is partially how Microsoft and Apple won their markets in the home/consumer space. By winning over the enterprise with one standard GUI and file system respectively between the two and carrying over to the consumer space that same architecture. The CEOs and the engineers loved the fact that the same computer experience they were used to at work could be replicated at home.

However....with 47 different varieties of EVERYthing on Linux this is not the case. But it looks like that is changing slowly but surely. This is good news. Now...it's time to standardize on XFS. Red Hat and Suse have done it. Time to step up Debian and Ubuntu.

[jo-erlend]

Fragmentation kills. This does not mean that by settling on standards also kills innovation which of course through the open source paradigm is impossible...

But isn't your argument that it was wrong to switch to XFS before the Debian-family had agreed to do so? After all, by making XFS standard, they introduced fragmentation, didn't they?

Of course, I don't agree with your argument at all. I think innovation without fragmentation is false innovation. Once you convince people that fragmentation is bad, you're left with conformity as a goal.

[starshipeleven]

Cool....I would hope that Debian and likewise Ubuntu would adopt and make standard XFS as the default file system and not Ext.

Yeah, because default filesystem makes a huge difference. Your fs-conshious userbase can't just choose whatever on install.

Now that it seems that the Linux world is getting its act together by coalescing around known good standards like XFS and Gnome its time for Debian and Ubuntu to step up and do the same.

Is GNOME a good standard? Is Linux coalescing on it? Lolwhut? Businness-oriented linux is using GNOME 3 classic mode which is basically MATE/GNOME2 because of continuity reasons, how does that have to do with GNOME 3 being a good standard?

That way Linux can show a more unified front against Microsoft and Apple.

You need to stop viewing Linux as a single entity as most people see/use distros. People don't use "Linux", but "opensuse", "debian", "Linux Mint".

So it is RHEL vs Windows or SUSE vs Windows.

This is partially how Microsoft and Apple won their markets in the home/consumer space.

Ummmmmmm.... very partially.

However....with 47 different varieties of EVERYthing on Linux this is not the case.

That's because Linux caters to different users with different distros. You could complain that Apple isn't using the same GUI as Windows so it is different and thus bad, but Apple isn't targeting average Windows users.

Also your post is completely unrelated to the topic.