-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Thursday 05 June 2003 04:15, Trevor Lauder wrote: > Kevin Anderson said: > > I'd add that Reiser wants to be very extended. I don't think it's there > > yet, but it wants to turn the file system into a database. > > Yeah, this is pretty much the future for filesystems in Linux & Windows. > I know Microsoft is planning on getting rid of NTFS (FAT/FAT32 are pretty > much already on the way out) fairly soon and replacing the filesystem with > a SQL database. The last I heard,this was planned on being released after > 2 more major versions of Windows. ReiserFS is already going in this > direction as you said, and the filesystems that choose not to will > probably eventually become unpopular to all but a select few since this is > a better way to do things compared with the current system.
select few, as in the majority of people running file, print, web and database servers for whom a metadata rich filesystem is pretty much useless bloat and overhead? i think there is a large place for both and those saying otherwise have a vested interest. - -- Aaron J. Seigo GPG Fingerprint: 8B8B 2209 0C6F 7C47 B1EA EE75 D6B7 2EB1 A7F1 DB43 KDE: The 'K' is for 'kick ass' http://www.kde.org http://promo.kde.org/3.1/feature_guide.php -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.2-rc1-SuSE (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQE+38Q71rcusafx20MRAmA8AKChKSE+001JFaU2tkI2n15YJV4PowCfYzWi Fs2lPjxn5tFD8XQBA1ocazY= =xTCp -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
