Re: Reiser 4 Apple

2005-02-14 Thread Simon \"Sturmflut\" Raffeiner
AFAIK WinFS will not enhance NTFS with some real Database-centric stuff but simply save an index into a standard Microsoft SQL database somewhere in a hidden place. At least the Windows Longhorn Preview Releases had a MS-SQL Server running in the background. Nobody knows what Apple exactly wants

Re: Reiser 4 Apple

2005-02-14 Thread Hans Reiser
Michael James wrote: Dear Hans, Have you ever thought of porting reiser4 to BSD? Apple have: Bags of money A current filesystem that totally sucks An OS that cries out for plugins to satisfy its quirks Could be a good marriage, michaelj Please convince them to pay for it

RE: Reiser 4 Apple

2005-02-14 Thread Burnes, James
Sounds like a great idea, but didn't they hire the filesystem architect from BeOS a few years ago to re-design the native MacOS X filesystem? I believe the idea was to clone the database-centric BeFS functions. I believe this functionality is on the plate sometime in the future with Reiser4 and a