So they are starting to catch up with the ext3 filesystem.

Not everything that Microsoft makes is bad. Just because someone says a particular product or technology is good doesn't make them a troll. In fact, as much as Windows drives me up a wall, I am a really big fan of Microsoft Security Essentials.

Assuming that everything Microsoft is terrible conversely is trolling.

I'll agree.

As ugly as NTFS is, the one thing I've liked about it is that it's the only FS used by Windows and Windows Servers for a dozen years.

With Linux, on the other hand, I've had to deal with ext2, ResierFS, ext3, ext4, and those are only the popular ones! There are a ton of other specialized filesystems for other features, such as encryption or use on flash memory!

Or maybe, just maybe, his post is actually a joke, wherein he copy/pasted the list of features being dropped (see paragraph 5 in TFA), claiming they were the advancements.

But no, conspiracy theories are much more fun.

All the file utilities for both Mac and PC and how you handle these different systems including forward/backward compatibility, Parallels, VMWare, Backup software, hard drives and tape devices will all go through teeth nashing debugs as we try to get everything to work with a new file system.

That may be OK when you are an IT professional.

For someone who "just wants it to work" there is likely to be lots of surprises ahead.

When it comes down to it, NTFS is a pretty good file system. If you look in to things you find that the feature list for BTRFS reads an awful like a feature set of current NTFS.

None of that is to say that NTFS couldn't stand improvement, and indeed it is being improved, but I've yet to see the amazing widely used file system that is so much better than it. Ext3 is functional, but leaves much to be desired.

If you've been following the discussions on the site lately, you'll notice that if you praise a competitor to Google or Linux, you are accused of being a "shill" by a swarm of attackers, the new buzzword used to filter out opposing viewpoints. Based on moderation trends, it's working. And of course, the irony that these "shill" accusers only go after opponents of Google is lost on them.

Kind of sad, because despite occasional advocacy, Slashdot discussion really did used to be more open-minded and reflective of the tech industry as a whole.

Respect?? That's absolutely terrible.

A modern journalling filesystem should not experience any corruption after a crash, because journal recovery is supposed to keep data structures consistent.

Not only that, but NO filesystem, journalling or not, should cause a kernel crash if it is corrupted.

Microsoft has done one thing well, and that is to lower the expectations of their users so far, that what should have been a few second journal recovery turned into a big outage and manual recovery of a massively corrupted filesystem, and that gains them "Absolute respect".