Watch the video demos from Ch9. Very geeky, dorky and slow.
From 10 minutes of skipping, they're basically saying they're building a
relational database on NTFS. They're not actually rebuilding NTFS, from the
ground up. So the sum total of the project will be a radically different
system wide service (rich database filing), which will probably be supported
by many applications in hereto unthought of ways.
What Hans has built is a new way of storing bits that increases speed,
reliability and flexability in the use of those bits in hereto unthought of
ways.
What'd be great? WinFS on Reiser4.
What we're gonna get? Windows Vista with a slowwer than ever file system,
based on 20yo technology, and uses a ton of RAM, but where data is self
organising in many fascinating ways. And *nix with a revolutionary fast and
different file system, where every application is going to make different
and incompatible use of the files as directories in order to emulate
WinFS-like features.
http://channel9.msdn.com/ShowPost.aspx?PostID=106356#106356
Dear god I love Firefox snapback tabs. Who invents this stuff? They should
be PAID!
----- Original Message -----
From: "Hans Reiser" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "Jake Maciejewski" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Cc: "Reiserfs List" <[email protected]>
Sent: Tuesday, August 30, 2005 4:35 PM
Subject: Re: WinFS beta out
Jake Maciejewski wrote:
Yeah, if SQL on NTFS counts as a revolutionary filesystem. I wonder what
Namesys could do with MS's resources.
Just a few million would be enough to do a lot.... ;-)
On Tue, 2005-08-30 at 00:36 -0400, Gregory Maxwell wrote:
http://it.slashdot.org/it/05/08/29/2241243.shtml?tid=109&tid=218
Looks like MSFT will be beating Linux to the nextgen FS punch after all.
;)
