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 think the mentioned distributed nature of WinFS will probably be one of the most useful features. I think that metadata will be more useful for some formats than for others.
Atm mp3 and variants are the most common users of metadata, however as anyone knows that metadata is often incomplete or incorrect.
Auto tagging of files is only so useful and tagging thousands of files individually is not going to happen. With both storage and winfs I think the metadata functionality is hyped more than it should be. Most people I've seen don't make a long term habit of filling out extra info fields in a meaninful way.
I guess in the long term M$ is going for a fully integrated system, one where programs can integrate a database with less fiddling about. Essentially the serialisation of file based data is hidden from the programmer. Kinda like single level storage similar to Os 400 perhaps (never used it myself)
but I'm pretty sure Longhorn will still have ordinary NTFS available for us organised skeptics.. however you will probably miss the fancy playlist thingamys