Re: Things that Longhorn seems to be doing right

Hans Reiser
2003-10-30T08:10:11Z

Christian Axelsson wrote:

> 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.
>
well, I much much prefer www.namesys.com/whitepaper.html ;-)

The reasons why SQL sucks for semi-structured data are described there.

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Hans