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ReFS is better than NTFS, but Microsoft refuses to let regular users have it
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this post was submitted on 18 Mar 2026
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I wish Microsoft adopted and upstreamed changes to OpenZFS instead of duplicating all this effort.
Though then I'm sure they would tell the community to fuck off by trying to take over the entire project and pushing the actually open and compatible version out of favour.
Problem is Microsoft has zero interest in zfs. Not even as far as answering questions the openzfs windows dev asks them.
Does Windows support any filesystems that don't suck?
NTFS? It’s a standard for a reason. Most of the “better” options out there aren’t ready for mainstream/average user use.
I need the better options. I need to be able to detect corruption. ZFS and btrfs let me do that. It's part of the reason why I couldn't use Windows even if I wanted to.