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WinFS' Spot on Back Burner Nothing New

Posted by CowboyNeal on from the procrastination-and-profit dept.

osViews.com writes "Charles Arthur of Independant.co.uk has an interesting editorial which analyzes Microsoft's recently postponed 'WinFS,' the file system that Microsoft had been planning to implement in Longhorn. His editorial reminds us that this technology, previously referred to as the 'NT Object Filing System' was intended for a previous version of one of Microsoft's operating system's code named 'Cairo.' Microsoft first spoke of the 'NT Object Filing System' in 1992 and scheduled a beta release in 1996 and then a full release in 1997. But limitations cause it to continue being delayed."

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  1. maybe because WinFS... by bani · · Score: 5, Insightful

    ...is a solution in search of a problem?

  2. Who here remembers... by callipygian-showsyst · · Score: 5, Insightful
    Who here remembers COPELAND, Pink, and Taligent?

    Or for that matter the ORIGINAL goal of the Gnu project?

    What's your point here? Why are you trying to bash Microsoft just because they decided to delay or abandon something?

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  3. Re:Or maybe... by vadim_t · · Score: 5, Insightful

    There's a system that exists already and that's not vaporware. ReiserFS 4.

    You can "cd" into a file like a directory and see the metadata. Things like bitrate for MP3, and all that stuff.

    SQL doesn't fit that well with filesystems, btw. Relational databases work great with rigid categories. But beyond very rudimentary classification it won't work well because everybody has their own idea of what a good classification should look like.