Bernhard Rohrer wrote:
>>ReiserFS4 ( http://www.namesys.com ) has an infrastructure to add meta
>> data to the filesystem in what sounds like "funky" ways. I've not heard
> of
>>>any implementations yet tho.
>>>> eeek! ReiserFS *spit* that piece of &*(%&%^^% has cost me two
> partitions. I am very very hesitant to ever use it again. I have
> excellent experiences with XFS so far.
>> anybody telling me that they would entrust their data to ReiserFS?
As far as I understand it ReiserFS4 has *full* data journaling...
though, it still concatonates files together...
The point though is that metadata as part of the file system is included
in the design.
Deciding on *what* is meta data is best left to userspace tools and is
an ill definable topic.
The notion of WinFS, in itself, is nothing more then a google killer for
the desktop... to stop Microsoft being out flanked by Google supplied
search and retrival tools on the Windows desktop.
My prediction :
1:
Useless, slow disaster for WinFS.
2:
€5,000,000 fines per day imposed from our friends in Brussels....
any day now ...
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