Next Windows to Have New Filesystem

ocipio writes: "Microsoft is currently planning a new filesystem. Its planned that the new filesystem will make searches easier, faster, and more reliable. Windows will also be less likely to break, and easier to fix when it does. The new technology will cause practically all Microsoft products to be rewritten to take advantage of it. Called Object File System, OFS will be found in the next major Windows release, codenamed Longhorn. More information can be found here at CNET."

Comments

Other problems

[briggsb]

I hope this doesn't cause as many problems as the last feature they added.

Yikes!

[sofar]

I hope they haven't discovered the unified file system, something which all the unixes use to store their data. We might be looking at the demise of unix!

oh wait, where do we put Progra~1 then?

- runs away to see if it's patentable

Searching by content

[ka9dgx]

"The goal is to enable searching not only by file name, but by file content."

You can achieve this goal by the following process:
1. Store all of your documents in a simple, text based format, and not in some overly complex propriatary format such as ".DOC", ".PDF", etc.

1. This text based format is known as "American Standard Code for Information Interchange" (AKA "ASCII")

2. If you require more complex presentation of information, you might want to use something called HyperText Markup Language. (Which doesn't do much markup these days... but I digress)

3. There is a program built in to Windows 98 and above called "Find" (usually accessed by hitting F3), and in other environments known as "grep" which can search by content.

Use the tools you have, you won't have to "upgrade" to the latest bugs, and the computer remains useful.

--Mike--

Re:Searching by content

[Yarn]

I do this by putting everything on my webpage and letting google sort it out :)

Re:Wow! This would mean

[Dr. Awktagon]

BECAUSE IT WORKS JUST FINE.

What are you saying, Citizen? You're not meeting your consumption quota? You're not upgrading when Central Planning issues Upgrade Orders?

You're denying Microsoft their much-deserved Software Revenue! You're denying the Government their much-deserved Tax Revenue! How unAmerican! General Gates would not be pleased!

You must upgrade immediately. Our helpful Upgrade Enforcers will assist you in all aspects (or will tie you to your chair if you are uncooperative). The new version of Office will be glorious, Citizen!

(You know, the Communists had it all wrong. The best way to manage society is through central planning of Consumption!)

Escalation

[dmaxwell]

[user] Meet my friends Mr. Debian Boot Disk and Mr. Debian Root Disk

[windows] A priority alert has been dispatched to the BSA.

[Debian Boot Disk] So Boss, do ya want to just rough him up a little or completely murdalize the bum?

Re:Predictions

[daniel_isaacs]

I'm told this file system won't need to be de-fragmented.

Oh wait, that email was 7 years old.

Summary

[Hard_Code]

First Slashdotter: MS is coming out with a new "revolutionary" file system! *bash* *bash* *bash*
All Slashdotters: Burn it! Burn it!
Rational observer: Well, how do you know it's so bad?
First Slashdotter: Well, it's from...MS!
All Slashdotters: Yeah! Yeah! Burn it! Yeah!