WinFS

[alexander]

hope this has something good to offer as Microsoft file systems generaly tend to stink, take fat or ntfs for example, only those filesystems need to get defragmented... sad ... here's the article: http://www.realtechnews.com/posts/1705

actually it kinda looks bad before its even out, whats funny, it will provide users with a visual way of managing files, ugh GUI :evil:

[Buffy]

Ha ha! If WinFS had garbage collection in it, it would throw out the whole kernel! :evil:

 

Maybe they'll learn eventually. Oracle used to require you to manually specify a database size and you had to grow it manually through a horrible process that basically required shutting down the db and copying the whole thing. Almost every other database either grew incrementally or at least grew automatically in chunks (Sybase and what's left of its mechanism in SQLServer). Oracle eventually learned, and I suspect one of these days, WinFS will catch up to where Unix was 20 years ago... :hihi:

 

Cheers,

Buffy

[alexander]

I suspect one of these days, WinFS will catch up to where Unix was 20 years ago

:hihi:

[nemo]

...Right after they buy Apple.

[rockytriton]

MS SQLServer 6.5 and earlier had the same annoying problem where you had to manually resize the database through a dreadful process. I sure hope that WinFS will have actual technical documentation as opposed to NTFS where you must rely on scraps gathered by a bunch of open source hackers.

[alexander]

thats why my choice for database servers goes as such:

 

MySQL

Postgres SQL

SQLite