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I think there is lots of potential for innovation in the file system area. There could be a content-adressable file system right in the kernel and serve as a ba

I think there is lots of potential for innovation in the file system area. There could be a content-adressable file system right in the kernel and serve as a base for the operating system. Or some kind of object storage. Or at least with much richer meta data (and Unicode file names!) than current file systems. And maybe with transaction support over multiple files/directories.

erikj 13y ago
There is a very interesting storage system designed for Apple's Newton OS that was buried when Steve Jobs killed the Newton: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apple_Newton#Data_storage http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apple_Newton#Data_storage In short, it's a modular object storage with a rich set of indexing and quering mechanisms, tailor-made for NewtonScript. It isn't some quirky experiment that never got out of CS academia's ivory tower - it had real-world applications and a noticeable installed base. EDIT: changed the link