From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Adrian Tritschler Subject: Re: [9fans] porting from vs. porting to Plan 9 In-reply-to: <7cc363f14ba5668eaf8d9247a2dab077@centurytel.net> To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu Message-id: <3F94CD2A.10505@ajft.org> MIME-version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.5) Gecko/20031008 Thunderbird/0.3 References: <7cc363f14ba5668eaf8d9247a2dab077@centurytel.net> Date: Tue, 21 Oct 2003 16:07:38 +1000 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Topicbox-Message-UUID: 75ae5728-eacc-11e9-9e20-41e7f4b1d025 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 presuma= bly > 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=20 meta-data to the file system. Nothing about the underlying protocol to=20 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=20 Future Storage (WinFS), which is based on technology from SQL Server=20 2003 (code-named Yukon). This file system add-on will abstract physical=20 file locations from the user and allow for the sorts of complex data=20 searching that are impossible today. For example, today, your email=20 messages, contacts, Word documents, and music files are all completely=20 separate. That won't be the case in Longhorn. WinFS requires NTFS." Adrian --------------------------------------------------------------- Adrian Tritschler mailto:ajft@ajft.org Latitude 38=B0S, Longitude 145=B0E, Altitude 50m, Shoe size 44 ---------------------------------------------------------------