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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There is nothing wrong with todays folders and files.
Lets keep it simple. You could have a simple DB that keeps
meta data. But lets face it when you move a *.Doc file
to a floppy disk then to another PC the meta data is still
there. Why ?
Because the meta data is in the file and the extra info
about the doc is shown by a plugin, same with the mp3
tags.
If you are onganized you would creat a short cut to
the most important folders. Or even use the find tool
or remember where there are.
We all know that hard drives are getting bigger and
faster. But having a 320GB drive with 300GB meta data
is over the top.
And to the main point all we are still doing is reads
and writes in 512b blocks. It how the software prosents
the information to us. We should be able to turn this
feature off if we dont want to run a mini sql server in
the back ground.
This is all IMHO.
Ready for people to try and prove me wrong
even though these are opinions.
Aaron