Re: silent semantic changes with reiser4

Hubert Chan
2004-08-28T17:27:20Z

>>>>> "Giuseppe" == Giuseppe Bilotta <bilotta78@hotpop.com> 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.

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