The btrfs filesystem is widely regarded as being the long-term future
choice for Linux. But what if btrfs is taking the wrong direction,
fighting an old war? If the nature of our storage devices changes
significantly, our filesystems will have to change as well. A lot of
attention has been paid to the increasing prevalence of flash-based
devices, but there is another upcoming technology which should be planned
for: object storage devices (OSDs). The recent posting of a new
filesystem called osdfs
provides a good opportunity to look at OSDs and how they might be supported
under Linux. Click below (subscribers only) for the full text.