On Thu, Oct 8, 2009 at 4:28 PM, Paul McNett <[email protected]> wrote:
> This smells like a purposeful leak to me: get people talking about the next > cycle of > vaporware. Microsoft have always been masters at manipulating the media. Right now, they're trying to make some soft news that will keep folks buzzing. Then, Windows 7 gets released and it will make a big splash, since the media hasn't been droning on about it. But everyone will remember, vaguely, that MS said it's all set to go 128-bit (not that that is what they said). Microsoft and Edelson, their PR firm, have a lot of experience in this. A 128-bit file system could be useful. Solaris, and the OpenSolaris open source project, support the ZFS file system, which has been 128-bit for a while. We've seen presentations at a couple of LUGs about folks implementing them for a high-speed, high-capacity network file system. Pretty cool. Rumors of a port to OS X abound. Ports to Linux would be tougher, as it's a different way of using block devices than the Linux model. I'll stick with the FOSS versions, though :) -- Ted Roche Ted Roche & Associates, LLC http://www.tedroche.com _______________________________________________ Post Messages to: [email protected] Subscription Maintenance: http://leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profox OT-free version of this list: http://leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profoxtech Searchable Archive: http://leafe.com/archives/search/profox This message: http://leafe.com/archives/byMID/profox/[email protected] ** All postings, unless explicitly stated otherwise, are the opinions of the author, and do not constitute legal or medical advice. This statement is added to the messages for those lawyers who are too stupid to see the obvious.
