On Tue, Feb 24, 2009 at 3:10 PM, Martin K. Petersen <[email protected]> wrote: >>>>>> "Dmitri" == Dmitri Nikulin <[email protected]> writes: > > Dmitri> If that's the case, why is it marketed for Windows Vista only, > Dmitri> and referring to filesystem features like marking unused blocks? > Dmitri> Surely if it was at the device level it would be OS-neutral, and > Dmitri> marketed as such. > > The article you posted references some benchmarketing numbers involving > Vista. That does not imply it's a Windows-only product. > > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ExtremeFFS
So it seems. I misread the marketing material, and I'm very relieved that Linux will benefit just as much from the improvement, indeed probably better. Thank you very much for correcting me, Martin and Dongjun. -- Dmitri Nikulin Centre for Synchrotron Science Monash University Victoria 3800, Australia -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-btrfs" in the body of a message to [email protected] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
