Re: WinFS beta out

["LiFe" <LiFers@optusnet.com.au>]

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" <reiser@namesys.com>
To: "Jake Maciejewski" <maciejej@msoe.edu>
Cc: "Reiserfs List" <reiserfs-list@namesys.com>
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. 
>>>;)
>>>
>>>
>