On Sun, 24 Nov 2002, Amir Tal wrote: > i've seen a lot of feedback on the net lately on winFS (the new filesystem MS > are going to use in their next version of windows, codenamed longhorn.) > > Longhorn will include a database-like file system called Windows Future > Storage (WinFS), which is based on technology from SQL Server 2003 > (code-named Yukon). This file system will abstract physical file > locations from the user and allow for the sorts of complex data > searching that are impossible today. For example, today, your email > messages, contacts, Word documents, and music files are all completely > separate. That won't be the case in Longhorn.
Isn't that too complex for the kernel and shouldn't this be left to user-level programs? > > i was wondering if there's any intention to try and implement something > similar in linux, and if there are any advantages to this technology that > justifies the effort. Gnome's VFS library? (Or whatever is used by evolution) -- Tzafrir Cohen mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.technion.ac.il/~tzafrir ================================================================= To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word "unsubscribe" in the message body, e.g., run the command echo unsubscribe | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]
