Linked by Eugenia Loli-Queru on Tue 24th Feb 2004 18:34 UTC
The voice, the man, the... machine. That's George Hoffman for you. According to people who have worked with him (including my husband) he is one of the brightest Be, Inc. engineers ever. These days, George works at PalmSource, Inc. as the Director of Applications and Services. In his free time he sings with an (a cappella) vocal band of 4, Hookslide (check out their .wmv promo video clip)! In this interview we talk about PalmOS 6, aka Cobalt. We discuss the architecture of the OS, its capabilities, its market targets and more. Screenshots of Cobalt are included.
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> So please, add a decent filesystem!
Did you read the comments from Dianne (Hackborne) or Palm (and former Be employee)? Did you read the interview with George?
There will be a VFS layer. This is how most OS of a UNIX/POSIX nature work. The FS is abstracted, and the driver for the FS implements specific calls and ioctl calls. Therefore, *yes*, reading between the lines, external FS will be supported in the future.
As for why you need a FS in the memory PalmOS uses to store data, why? Please tell us more. I've been a Palm user since the late 90's (PalmPilot Pro/PalmOS2) and the lack of a FS has never stopped the device from functioning... A database is like a folder, it can contain one of more files (a lot of apps do it this way under PalmOS), so why the big problem? There's a perfectly good APi to gather all files for a specific type/creator id, and this is, after all, more or less what you need to get at a specific file list. All PalmOS does, if you want a comparison to other FS, is flatten the entire FS into a single Directory that lets you query for specific files of a type/creator that you want to access. This then get's you a list to parse. I'm still not clear why this is a problem? It's just like a query under BeOS (though has been in PalmOS since 1.0 obviously.)