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		daniel02216 on Jan 16, 2012 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Building the next generation file system for Windo... I'm not sure I see the difference between a log-structured file system and what they have proposed for their robust disk update strategy, especially when you add integrity streams into the picture. Anyone with more filesystems knowledge than me want to clarify this?

obtu on Jan 17, 2012 [–]

Their approach looks a lot like BtrFS: everything in a BTree, append-only, with checksums.

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