Re: [ossig] Gates visit to Malaysia to cultivate talent

[Colin Charles <byte@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Tue, 2004-06-29 at 03:38, Vincent Lee wrote:

> they showed the features and functionalities of the beta version of Longhorn,
> to be released around 2005... quite a big paradigm shift in terms of the
> file-system.... they make it relational.... i am not sure if an average user
> will be able to understand and make use of this feature though... but once the
> users get used to this concept, i think it will be quite hard to switch back to
> the normal folder/tree structure type of file systems...

So, how does this differ from OS X's Spotlight?
http://www.apple.com/macosx/tiger/spotlight.html

It's all about the metadata nowadays it seems - NTFS has great support
for this, in several data streams. I'm presuming Apple's HFS+ does too.
In the Unix world, XFS seems to support extended attributes, with a
limit in size of the extended attributes; Reiser does the same thing, to
some degree, and ext3 also has extended attributes, but its mucho
limited (all this, in comparison to what NTFS seems to do, in supporting
streams). I understand UFS2 also has these aims, but someone more
knowledgable about the situation with the filesystem available in
FreeBSD -CURRENT should comment

So, if your filesystem lacks EA support, there will be no "streams" to
store data in, and its going to be very interesting to see how the FOSS
world can bring all this together, especially since Longhorn/Tiger will
raise the bar for the FOSS world
-- 
Colin Charles, byte@aeon.com.my
http://www.bytebot.net/


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