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'Storage' to Replace Traditional Filesystems?
JigSaw writes "OSNews is reporting on Storage, an innovative project which aims to replace the traditional hierarchical filesystems with a new document store which is database-based (PostgreSQL). The current implementation, built under Gnome 2.x for now, offers natural language access, network transparency, and a number of other features. The project is currently in alpha (screenshots already available), and it is part of the next major generation of Gnome. It is currently developed by Seth Nickell, the person responsible for the enhanced Gnome usability on 2.x and its HIG, among other things."
Oh wait, you're using Linux. Nevermind. Happy hacking. Ain't open source wonderful? You've got the source and now you even got the opportunity to debug it!
BOO! TERRO
the OSS community jacks another idea, this time from Microsoft
keep up the "innovation" fellas!
You still cannot reliably backup PostgreSQL databases, and you want to store all your files in it? Isn't his a bit premature?
So it's about that time again. The old database is a filesystem is a database thing. To people that have not heard of this before this is not a new idea. OS/390 has been doing this for a very long time.
What this world needs is a really big injection of orginal thought, not a rehash of every idea that gets old enough for most people to forget it the first time around.
Which only goes to show how pathetically un-geeky the typical slashdotter is. I've been using AS/400 as my primary workstation OS for 17 years now. All you dimwits with your powerbooks call yourselves "hackers" but you probably couldn't write a single line of RPG if your life depended on it.