John Siracusa and Dan Benjamin talk about file systems: what they do, what makes a good one, and who needs a new one, badly. (Spoiler: it's Apple.) File systems discussed: Microsoft's ReFS, ZFS, and HFS+.

Links for this episode:

• Apple Purchases Land In Oregon For Another Large Data Center
  
• The state of the filesystem, from John's Mac OS X 10.7 Lion review
  
• maczfs - Support and ongoing development for the Mac port of ZFS
  
• ZEVO - Ten's Complement
  
• Building the next generation file system for Windows: ReFS - MSDN
  
• Virtualizing storage for scale, resiliency, and efficiency - MSDN
  
• RAID-Z - Jeff Bonwick
  
• A useless analysis of OS X release dates - Robservatory
  
• Urban Dictionary: fsck
  
• Rampant layering syndrome - FatBits
  
• Rampant Layering Violation? - Jeff Bonwick
  

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