Bitrot and atomic COWs: Inside “next-gen” filesystems
I think the next generation file system has CoW, are based on erasure codes and are internet distributed. For example your home NAS have InternetFS, now you can reach all your files where ever you are, all files in the home directory are always in sync. Failure of a hard drive does not matter. If your house burns down, your friends or someone else on the internet
has the pieces you need to reconstruct your data. The next gen filesystem also have built in versioning via the CoW so you can always revert to an earlier version of an file.<p>InternetFS(Encrypted, distributed, always in sync, cheap snapshots, p2p)<p>Want to share Photos or movies with your friends and family? No problem just right click on the file, select the friend from a list, they see the file and they can view it on their computer.<p>This next gen file system will be incredibly easy to use, cross platform. As simple to use as Facebook, Skype, Email.