Re: Things that Longhorn seems to be doing right

Diego Calleja García
2003-10-30T07:34:18Z

El Wed, 29 Oct 2003 20:52:12 -0500 Theodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu> escribió:

> At some level what they have done can be very easily replicated by
> having a userspace database which is tied to the filesystem so you can
> do select statements to search on metadata assocated with files. We
> can do this simply by associating UUID's to files, and storing the
> file metadata in a MySQL database which can be searched via
> appropriate userspace libraries which we provide.

Something like this?: http://www.gnome.org/~seth/storage/index.html

Another thing that Longhorn *is* doing right is the revamp of the "graphic
subsystem" aka Avalon, they seem to be trying to catch up with Mac OS X
in that field.