Re: Things that Longhorn seems to be doing right

Christian Axelsson
2003-10-30T07:50:11Z

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.

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Christan Axelsson
smiler@lanil.mine.nu