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On the State of Linux File Systems 319

Posted by kdawson on Saturday November 29, 2008 @04:45PM from the here-hold-this-for-me dept.

kev009 writes to recommend his editorial overview of the past, present and future of Linux file systems: ext2, ext3, ReiserFS, XFS, JFS, Reiser4, ext4, Btrfs, and Tux3. "In hindsight it seems somewhat tragic that JFS or even XFS didn't gain the traction that ext3 did to pull us through the 'classic' era, but ext3 has proven very reliable and has received consistent care and feeding to keep it performing decently. ... With ext4 coming out in kernel 2.6.28, we should have a nice holdover until Btrfs or Tux3 begin to stabilize. The Btrfs developers have been working on a development sprint and it is likely that the code will be merged into Linus's kernel within the next cycle or two."

Comment So how do we stop this? (Score 1) 120

by the positive path on Saturday November 08, 2008 @09:01AM (#25686891) Attached to: A Look At the CoreFlood Botnet

My bank has the random 3 questions plus password authentication scheme (Royal Bank Securities - Canada). I'm always wondering about the lax security, and when my account might be compromised. I bet if the bank calculated their total loses due to online fraud; then assumed RSA style token based authentication would reduce that by a significant amount, then wouldn't it make financial sense for them...?

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