Will You Switch To ReFS On Your Main OS Drive?

Discussion in 'Windows 11' started by PolidelticusFire, Jan 26, 2023.

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Will You Migrate To ReFS As Soon As It Becomes Available In The Dev Channel?

  1. Yes. I think it's time we finally moved on from the aging NTFS.

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  2. No. If it's not broken, don't fix it.

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  1. PolidelticusFire

    PolidelticusFire MDL Addicted

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    Builds 25281 onwards fully support being installed to and booting from ReFS-formatted disks (although you have to enable a Velocity ID...) (I assume its the same case with 25284...)

    However, once Msft makes this official for insiders to try, will you be switching away from NTFS?

    I do believe the next major Windows release will use ReFS by default at least on the Pro for Workstations and Enterprise SKUs... and make NTFS optional.
     
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  2. MDeaks

    MDeaks MDL Member

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  3. Spawn182

    Spawn182 MDL Novice

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    I got the information, that ReFS has no repair tools like Chkdsk, so when a file is damaged it's simply lost. So running ReFS on a single drive seems risky to me, you always have to run some sort of redundant setup (mirror/parity). If that statement is true, I will stick with NTFS.
     
  4. endbase

    endbase MDL Guru

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    No way to convert ReFS back to NTFS when you have problems big downside if they going make the convert command available on ReFS I'm in
     
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  5. TigTex

    TigTex MDL Senior Member

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    ReFS sounds great for big data volumes but not ideal for the main boot drives. All those checksums and verifications surely have an overhead on the CPU and most of us don't use our computers as fileservers.
     
  6. pp03

    pp03 MDL Senior Member

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    i'm testing it on my surface laptop 5
     
  7. kaljukass

    kaljukass MDL Guru

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    I'm sorry, but you shouldn't test it, but you should first make it clear to yourself what it is, where it can be used at all and where it can't be used any way, and of course, why it can be used on some places and why not possible at all on some other places.
    Before trying must know what you're going to try, otherways the trying may stay the last.
     
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  8. MS_User

    MS_User MDL Guru

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    i agree for server is good but for single machines is risky if your HD runs into problems.
     
  9. iota

    iota MDL Junior Member

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    i'm not going say my thinking, because it may lead to pointless debate which is not worth it.

    however, comment about options. there is only two, i think there should at least three options. two options exaggerates results, and also some do not vote if two. those lead to inaccurate results.
     
  10. MDeaks

    MDeaks MDL Member

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    FYi....ReFs = has been always = STANDARD in Apple PC & laptops.

    MS = now, still "thinking" :confused: about ReFs - as "one of the OPTIONS" for the BOOT-Partition / SECTOR !!!
    ((( my feedback to MS guys has been years ago = make it one of the "options" in OOBE ie (Fat/32 or NTFS or ReFs)

    so a bit surprised ...... some of the comments ( I agree @iota )
     
  11. Tito

    Tito Super Mod / Adviser
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    Wrong, modern Apple devices (running macOS, iOS/iPadOS, tvOS, and watchOS) use Apple File System (APFS). It replaced the Mac OS Extended (aka HFS Extended/HFS+) file system.

    We've yet to come across a full-fledged open source implementation of ReFS for Linux or macOS.
     
  12. MDeaks

    MDeaks MDL Member

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    #12 MDeaks, Jan 28, 2023
    Last edited: Feb 3, 2023
    Ooops, sorry my MISTAKE - re APPLE comment <<<this silly sausage was messed up with constant power switching off in USA ; that day>>. apologies everyone
     
  13. RJARRRPCGP

    RJARRRPCGP MDL Senior Member

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    FAT32 is from the late-1990s, but it's required by UEFI for booting!
     
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  14. rpo

    rpo MDL Expert

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    Modern mother boards allow NTFS booting
     
  15. RobrPatty

    RobrPatty MDL Expert

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    Anyone actually gotten 25290 installed on ReFS yet
     
  16. Chronidus

    Chronidus MDL Junior Member

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    Yeah I tried it, no issues so-far
     
  17. boyonthebus

    boyonthebus MDL Expert

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    What are the steps you took with this build?
     
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  18. moon9999

    moon9999 MDL Novice

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    ReFS formatted in windows 11 is not compatible with windows 10.
     
  19. EeroS

    EeroS MDL Senior Member

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    I’m testing ReFS on VM, seems to work fine.
     
  20. TairikuOkami

    TairikuOkami MDL Expert

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    No file compression, not interested. I got my system partition from 20GB to 14GB thanks to LZX.
     

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