Re: [9fans] porting from vs. porting to Plan 9

[Adrian Tritschler <ajft@ajft.org>]

Skip Tavakkolian wrote:

>>Maybe the thing to do is seek out several of the smart
>>minds in Microsoft R&D, who are bound to see the problems
>>but might not have seen the solution, and engage them in
>>dialogues.  If you make enough impact, perhaps it would
>>begin moving the dominant OS line in the right direction,
>>eventually enabling protocol-compatible OSes with different
>>higher-level interfaces to compete.

> It appears they've already (re)invented it.  It is called WinFS and as
> is usual practice it will probably have something like 9P but
> different; There is very little information about it, but it is presumably
> part of Longhorn and they're saying look for it around 2005-06.

As far as I can tell, WinFS is more the addition of vast amounts of 
meta-data to the file system.  Nothing about the underlying protocol to 
talk back and forth between things.

 From http://www.winsupersite.com/faq/longhorn.asp

"Longhorn will include a database-like file system add-on called Windows 
Future Storage (WinFS), which is based on technology from SQL Server 
2003 (code-named Yukon). This file system add-on will abstract physical 
file locations from the user and allow for the sorts of complex data 
searching that are impossible today. For example, today, your email 
messages, contacts, Word documents, and music files are all completely 
separate. That won't be the case in Longhorn. WinFS requires NTFS."

	Adrian

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