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Talk of tag/DB based file systems always reminds me of WinFS[1]. Microsoft were trying to build a tag (well relational database) backed file system since 1990..
by danseagrave 11y ago
Talk of tag/DB based file systems always reminds me of WinFS[1]. Microsoft were trying to build a tag (well relational database) backed file system since 1990... eventually abandoned - presumably due to back-compat issues.
1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WinFS https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WinFS
- jpfed 11y agoLots of reading material about the conception and death of WinFS: http://www.metafilter.com/134799/WinFS-what-it-could-have-been-and-why-it-failed http://www.metafilter.com/134799/WinFS-what-it-could-have-be...