Jan 16
There is a lot of talk on ZFS the open source file system created originally by Sun (they do have good techies!).
WinFS never made it to Vista, but the ideas of metadata are smart (just like putting metadata via Spotlight). Why isn’t this in the file systems themselves?
We have locate and need to updatedb to generate an index to query. Why doesn’t the file system do the indexing, and have locate run against the fs itself.
January 17th, 2007 at 4:29 am
I wish we had what the BeOS had a decade ago.
I watched awe as Jean-Louis Gassée demonstrated it at CMU almost a decade ago. Folders where just queries. It was brilliant… you could use SQL to find/organize stuff. And of course the UI was pervasively multi-threaded, almost zero latency. Windows Explorer on the other-hand abuses me daily with inexplicable 5=30sec delays where it fails to even repaint itself. WinFS was the only feature I really was looking forward to in Longhorn/Vista. It was the only one I saw that might make a material difference in my computing life.