From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S262228AbTJ3HuL (ORCPT ); Thu, 30 Oct 2003 02:50:11 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S262236AbTJ3HuL (ORCPT ); Thu, 30 Oct 2003 02:50:11 -0500 Received: from mail1.btignite.se ([194.213.69.35]:41745 "HELO mail1.btignite.se") by vger.kernel.org with SMTP id S262228AbTJ3HuI (ORCPT ); Thu, 30 Oct 2003 02:50:08 -0500 Message-ID: <3FA0BCDE.7080201@lanil.mine.nu> Date: Thu, 30 Oct 2003 08:25:18 +0100 From: Christian Axelsson User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.5) Gecko/20031016 Thunderbird/0.3 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Hans Reiser CC: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: Things that Longhorn seems to be doing right References: <3F9F7F66.9060008@namesys.com> In-Reply-To: <3F9F7F66.9060008@namesys.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Hans Reiser wrote: > They are building in support for transactions into the OS. > > Everything will be in XML. (It is not so important what format it is > in, as it is that they are going to do it in one format.) > > Support for browsing versions in the FS. > > Support for browsing and querying XML their unified format. Ok, so SQL > sucks, but this is still better than what we offer today in Linux. I think this is better implemented in userspace somehow to keep the kernel away from bloat. What do you think of the GNOME Storage project: http://www.gnome.org/~seth/storage/ Its not exactly the same but maybe its going in that direction. -- Christan Axelsson smiler@lanil.mine.nu