'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."

Comments

Obvious advantages

[tsetem]

There's lots of advantages to this kind of system, especially if interfaces are written for other OS's (Windows, Solaris, OSX)

• Networked file system. No more NFS/SMB hacks. Everyone accesses the data in a common way, and can access the same data
  
• Integrated mime-types. No more relying on file extensions and other hacks. The mime-type (and subsequent viewer) is right there in the query
  
• Integrated version control. Have and keep a history of all of your files as they were managed and maintained through their lives, as well as a history of who modified them. If this aspect could be enhanced with branching & merging, then would make other CM Systems (CVS, ClearCase) obsolete?
  

Of course it's only wishful thinking. I'd be nervous to see exactly how this integrates into other "Legacy" applications. I can also see be performance penalties since you are now querying a database, rather than looking at a simple file structure...