Re: Longhorn FS being removed to Blackcomb (end of decade)

[Hubert Chan <hubert@uhoreg.ca>]

>>>>> "James" == Burnes, James <james.burnes@gwl.com> writes:

James> Just thought this might be interesting to some of you.  The
James> database-like FS for Longhorn has just been delayed until the end
James> of the decade.  That's great.  It means that Microsoft's attempt
James> to copy the BeOS filesystem is not meeting with much success.

From the article[1]:

  The current plan calls for the file system to work on PCs but not
  extend to files shared over a corporate network.

[1] http://yahoo.businessweek.com/magazine/content/04_16/b3879009_mz001.htm

So it looks like WinFS will still be in Longhorn, but with scaled-back
capabilities.  (Of course, with Microsoft, you never really know what to
expect.)  So it sounds like Reiser6, without the Reiser5 stuff (IIRC,
Reiser6 adds the database capabilities, and Reiser5 is a distributed
filesystem, and the order in which they will appear depends on
funding).

Given how long it took Reiser4 to materialize, I'm not too confident
that Reiser6 will appear before Longhorn.  But then again, Reiser4 was
a complete rewrite, while Reiser6 should be mostly just new plugins.

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