> Ive heard that WinFS is a filesystem that has some kind of database? I didnt > understand the advantages because I havent read about it, but it is the best > thing since sliced bread according to MS. > > My question is, because WinFS database is running on top of NTFS, could a > similar thing be done for ZFS? Implement a database running on top of ZFS, > that has similar functionality as WinFS? > > (I never understood the advantages of having a database on top of NTFS, maybe > it would be pointless for ZFS? Can someone knowledgeable give some input to > my question?)
You should know that WinFS is simply a modified MS SQL Server with a passthrough to NTFS for filestream objects. The public releases of WinFS weren't doing anything special. The data store were regular MDB files hidden in x:\System Volume Information and filestream blobs files with GUIDs as name also hidden in that folder. The advantage was supposed to be an unified data store, where data would be stored in structured formats instead of binary blobs, unless it wasn't possible otherwise (e.g. JPEG image data, where as EXIF data would have been extracted and stored in the structured parts). Like this, every application supporting WinFS would be able to share their data between each other. -mg
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