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I guess when the next Windows would include a novel FS, people would not care. After decades of experimenting (does anybody remember the fears of users when it
by ktpsns 7y ago
I guess when the next Windows would include a novel FS, people would not care. After decades of experimenting (does anybody remember the fears of users when it was introduced that Longhorn deprecates the traditional filesystem for query-based dynamic folders and thelike... In the end it remained only as another "addition", not a replacement), people expect a desktop filesystem to do what it always did.
Even more, the way how Android and iOS hides away the filesystem from the user in everyday tasks shows that for end users, the technical fundament isn't in the focus anymore. Modern filesystems is something which will change how servers ("backends") work but not how customers do.
That's why I think MS burrows WinFS and will probably never dig it out again...
- teh_klev 7y agoI doubt MS "burrows" (I think you mean "buried") WinFS. There were likely many good lessons learned from that project about file systems, and there were a few useful outcomes that are present in the current NTFS. You don't know, what you don't know until you try stuff. It's called research.
- nightski 7y agoI know why they did it but to me hiding the filesystem is one of the most annoying and cumbersome parts of mobile operating systems. It's a shame to have such a lack of freedom with data.
- jplayer01 7y agoYou mean iOS? You have fairly extensive access to everything on storage on Android.