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If you look up WinFS (which is a cancelled Windows file system originally intended to ship with Windows Longhorn), its basic principle is exactly that, be a dat
by MenhirMike 3y ago
If you look up WinFS (which is a cancelled Windows file system originally intended to ship with Windows Longhorn), its basic principle is exactly that, be a database that happens to work as a file system.
Not sure why exactly it failed, I assume that it just wasn't a suitable idea at the time given that most consumer devices (especially laptops) had very slow traditional hard drives, but in the age of NVMe storage, maybe it would be worth revisiting, assuming that Microsoft is still interested in evolving Windows in meaningful ways outside of better Ad delivery mechanisms.
- bombcar 3y agoIIRC WinFS didn't precisely fail as much as get cancelled along with Longhorn, and parts of it migrated into other projects. Much of the consumer-facing niceties of it got implemented in search tools that track metadata separately.
- zeusk 3y agoReFS has some learnings from WinFS
- MenhirMike 3y agoIt did fail in devliering the actual product that was intended, but yeah, they did salvage a lot of it and also AFAIK helped the SQL Server team improve a few things. So it's a bit like Intel's Larrabee (which did technically come out as a product, Xeon Phi) as well: A high profile R&D project.
- fomine3 3y agoXeon Phi is dead end so I don't know is it good example.