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+1 insightful Microsoft has been trying something like this for decades with WinFS (for 'this' read 'a richer persistence abstraction offered by the OS'). It
by afandian 13y ago
+1 insightful
Microsoft has been trying something like this for decades with WinFS (for 'this' read 'a richer persistence abstraction offered by the OS').
It never quite happened.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WinFS#Development http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WinFS#Development
- greyfade 13y agoI've always thought that that effort had value, even if it is a failure. I think BeOS had something going right when BeFS was introduced with indexed extended attributes. Tagging and other metadata are exceedingly useful, so why isn't anyone working on a native tagging filesystem with indexed extended attributes? That would go a long way to making the likes of WinFS a reality. Even more useful is if we find a way to standardize the communication of these additional metadata, to make the tags and attributes more portable.