Bitrot and atomic COWs: Inside “next-gen” filesystems - Ars Technica

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<table border="0" cellpadding="2" cellspacing="7" style="vertical-align:top;"><tr><td width="80" align="center" valign="top"><font style="font-size:85%;font-family:arial,sans-serif"><a href="http://news.google.com/news/url?sa=t&fd=R&usg=AFQjCNGYdIGYhQCoDdNR7UEggF_HweJgQw&url=http://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2014/01/bitrot-and-atomic-cows-inside-next-gen-filesystems/"><img src="//t0.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcTqlhPsWibdyx5_2oL4gZljOVLfvg7fd 21RbT7R4cmou6M5X1LEffaNuHo" alt="" border="1" width="80" height="44" /><br /><font size="-2">Ars Technica</font></a></font></td><td valign="top" class="j"><font style="font-size:85%;font-family:arial,sans-serif"><br /><div style="padding-top:0.8em;"><img alt="" height="1" width="1" /></div><div class="lh"><a href="http://news.google.com/news/url?sa=t&fd=R&usg=AFQjCNGYdIGYhQCoDdNR7UEggF_HweJgQw&url=http://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2014/01/bitrot-and-atomic-cows-inside-next-gen-filesystems/"><b>Bitrot and atomic COWs: Inside “next-gen” filesystems</b></a><br /><font size="-1"><b><font color="#6f6f6f">Ars Technica</font></b></font><br /><font size="-1">Think punchcards, data on audiocassette, <b>Atari 2600</b> ROM carts. Generation 1: Early random access. Here, there are multiple named files on one device with no folders or other metadata. Think Apple ][ DOS (but not ProDOS!) as one example. Generation 2:&nbsp;<b>...</b></font><br /><font size="-1" class="p"></font><br /><font class="p" size="-1"><a class="p" href="http://news.google.ie/news/more?ncl=dN3GptVqW7BsoyM&authuser=0&ned=en_ie"><nobr><b></b></nobr></a></font></div></font></td></tr></table>

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