Comments on: ZFS, can you index file info? http://almaer.com/blog/zfs-can-you-index-file-info blogging about life, the universe, and everything tech Sat, 08 Sep 2012 07:06:53 -0700 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 By: Mark Denovich http://almaer.com/blog/zfs-can-you-index-file-info/comment-page-1#comment-35902 Mark Denovich Wed, 17 Jan 2007 11:29:13 +0000 http://almaer.com/blog2/zfs-can-you-index-file-info#comment-35902 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. 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.

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