What is ReFS?

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What is ReFS?

Sam Hobbs · Answer

So this forum should be called  Resilient File System (ReFS)  and then it would be clear what it is about. It is unfortunate that ReFS will not support Extended Attributes which is something that OS/2 and I am nearly certain Unix/Linux also supports. Microsoft's best explanation for why EAs were not provided better support is that they were not used but they could not be used because Microsoft did not provide useful support. I do not know if ReFS provides a useful alternative; hopefully it does. In OS/2 the REXX language is interpreted. Typically an interpreted version of a REXX script is stored in the script file's EA. I hope that ReFS can do something equivalent.

Mahesh Chand · Answer

Something really cool :) http://www.c-sharpcorner.com/Blogs/8019/refs-replacing-ntfs-in-windows-8.aspx

Vulpes · Answer

It's a new file system for the server version of Windows 8 which is said to be an improvement on NTFS. The name is an abbreviation for Resilient File System. There have been several articles about it: https://www.google.co.uk/#hl=en&gs_nf=1&pq=windows+8+new+fs&cp=17&gs_id=v&xhr=t&q=windows+8+new+file+system&pf=p&sclient=psy-ab&oq=windows+8+new+fil&aq=0&aqi=g1g-b2&aql=&gs_sm=&gs_upl=&gs_l=&pbx=1&bav=on.2or.r_gc.r_pw.r_qf.cf.osb&fp=8bef50ac12c57518&biw=1366&bih=643 and Wikipedia has a summary of its features: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windows_Server_8

Mahesh Chand · Answer

Yes. So based on the technology we update the categories than creating new.

Vulpes · Answer

Mahesh will correct me if I'm wrong but I think that this category originally started life as WinFS and was renamed Windows Refs in January this year. As it wasn't clear what this meant there were then a couple of inappropriate questions posted to it and the category has now been renamed ReFS. However I have no idea whether ReFS makes use of any of the work done on the long defunct WinFS or not.

Sam Hobbs · Answer

Then it must be an old file system that has not gotten much attention. When I search Microsoft the results are ambiguous about what ReFS is. So I looked at the threads in this forum; the oldest one is nearly six years old. The other two threads besides this one and the first thread are about keypress events. Do you know what bizarre is? This forum is bizarre. Well at least now people have a definition of what the forum is supposed to be about. Lets see if the future threads are about file systems keypress events or bizarre things such as Windows being offered for free as Open Source.