> The btrfs filesystem is widely regarded as being the long-term future choice for Linux. > But what if btrfs is taking the wrong direction, fighting an old war? > If the nature of our storage devices changes significantly, > our filesystems will have to change as well. > A lot of attention has been paid to the increasing prevalence of flash-based devices, > but there is another upcoming technology which should be planned for: object storage devices (OSDs). > The recent posting of a new filesystem called osdfs provides a good opportunity > to look at OSDs and how they might be supported under Linux.