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

[Poh Yang Ming <pohyg@xxxxxxxxx>]

at a glance, the difference i notice is that, u can
define relationships of the files urself and
reorganized it based on the given attributes.

^_^

--- Colin Charles <byte@aeon.com.my> wrote:
> 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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