18.33, Monday 10 Feb 2003

The New BFS (Brendan File System) [via Play with the Machine], filesystem postulation: "File systems need to change. Current file systems are horribly out-of-touch with the realities of what users need to effectively find, organize, and modify their vast quantities of files. [...] Not a single proposal I've read has ever started by considering the most important motivator of good file system design: how will the user interact with it?"