From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Hubert Chan Subject: Re: silent semantic changes with reiser4 Date: Sat, 28 Aug 2004 13:27:20 -0400 Sender: news Message-ID: <878ybzkwav.fsf@uhoreg.ca> References: <87hdqomn7w.fsf@uhoreg.ca> Mime-Version: 1.0 Return-path: list-help: list-unsubscribe: list-post: Errors-To: flx@namesys.com List-Id: Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: reiserfs-list@namesys.com Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org >>>>> "Giuseppe" == Giuseppe Bilotta writes: Giuseppe> Hubert Chan wrote: >> No. To access the database-like functionality in WinFS, you need to >> use a special API. Giuseppe> I see, thanks. Might be interesting to know what they plan to Giuseppe> make accessible of WinFS to legacy apps via the old API, then Giuseppe> (especially since, at according to a /. article, they're Giuseppe> planning to retrofit WinFS to WinXP ...) AFAIK, all files are still accessible through normal NTFS. You just need the special API to do querying and such. So old apps can access all the files normally. They just can't take advantage of all the new whizbang features. -- Hubert Chan - http://www.uhoreg.ca/ PGP/GnuPG key: 1024D/124B61FA Fingerprint: 96C5 012F 5F74 A5F7 1FF7 5291 AF29 C719 124B 61FA Key available at wwwkeys.pgp.net. Encrypted e-mail preferred. From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Hubert Chan Subject: Re: silent semantic changes with reiser4 Date: Sat, 28 Aug 2004 13:27:20 -0400 Sender: news Message-ID: <878ybzkwav.fsf@uhoreg.ca> References: <87hdqomn7w.fsf@uhoreg.ca> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org Return-path: list-help: list-unsubscribe: list-post: Errors-To: flx@namesys.com To: reiserfs-list@namesys.com List-Id: linux-fsdevel.vger.kernel.org >>>>> "Giuseppe" == Giuseppe Bilotta writes: Giuseppe> Hubert Chan wrote: >> No. To access the database-like functionality in WinFS, you need to >> use a special API. Giuseppe> I see, thanks. Might be interesting to know what they plan to Giuseppe> make accessible of WinFS to legacy apps via the old API, then Giuseppe> (especially since, at according to a /. article, they're Giuseppe> planning to retrofit WinFS to WinXP ...) AFAIK, all files are still accessible through normal NTFS. You just need the special API to do querying and such. So old apps can access all the files normally. They just can't take advantage of all the new whizbang features. -- Hubert Chan - http://www.uhoreg.ca/ PGP/GnuPG key: 1024D/124B61FA Fingerprint: 96C5 012F 5F74 A5F7 1FF7 5291 AF29 C719 124B 61FA Key available at wwwkeys.pgp.net. Encrypted e-mail preferred.