Linked by Mo Mckinlay on Fri 31st Oct 2003 17:35 UTC
There's been much discussion over the past few months about the marriage of databases and filesystems - with Microsoft's Longhorn reportedly sporting the
Yukon integrated SQL Server, and GNOME Storage in heaty debate, if not development, there's been lots to talk about.
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I've glanced over the Longhorn docs, but I am curious if anyone knows:
1. How will I backup this kind of store? I can imagine an enterprise will have a backup server that replicates local stores, but what about the home user?
2. How will I restore these kinds of backups? Will I be able to restore this data on my other computers? What if my other computers are running OS X or BSD or Linux?
3. Lots of file formats contain metadata, e.g. a Word document's author information or an mp3's id3 tags. If I transfer a file from WinFS to another system, how will that file's metadata get transfered?
This kind of technology looks like it has some really excitiing applications, but I am concerned that it will make me more dependant on MS to retain and use my data in the future. We shall see.