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
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
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