[clue] generations of file systems

[Chris Fedde]

Link to article?

On Sun, Mar 24, 2019 at 9:36 PM Dennis J Perkins <dennisjperkins at comcast.net>
wrote:

> Jim Salter has an interesting article abut this on Ars Technica.
>
> Generation 0: No system.  Just n aritrary stream of data on punchcards,
> cassettes, tape, etc.
>
> Generation 1: Early filesystems without directories or metadata.  CP/M,
> Apple DOS, etc.
>
> Generation 2: Directories added to better handle the amount of storage
> space on hard drives.  MS-DoS 2.0.
>
> Generation 3: Metadata.  Unix, Macintosh.
>
> Generation 4.  Journaling.  Ext3, NTFS, etc.
>
> Generation 5: CoW , built-in volume management, per-block checksums,
> self-healing arrays.  ZFS, Btrfs, ReFS.  Maybe Bcachefs and Stratis?
>
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