Linked by Marcus Carlson on Wed 21st Jul 2004 18:17 UTC
In these days there has been much fuzzing about the new browsing with files organizing themselves with the help of meta data. Maybe you ask yourself "What have this to do with the spatial browsing in gnome and how can it improve the browsing?". That's what I did. As I see it, the gnome people have introduced the spatial browsing so we are used to it when this new browsing is coming to town. This is very intelligent move of the gnome people and will help us adopt faster to this. This is when the spatial browsing is really making sense. I hope you see this when you've read this article.
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WINFS is nothing more than NTFS with MS SQL database on top of it. Apple's new spotlight is closer to BFS but not quite it's power. Apple uses a metadata approach. MSFTis going to use a full database on top of a file system. You will still have to defrag it, you will still have to sort out and setup your data.
It won't be the computer picks what data it wants, WinFS will store data where it wants you to store data. So if you know the hard wired location you can bypass winfs, thus infecting the system without a way to find the infected files. With luck MSFT will make this hard to do, but MSFT and security don't go well together.
Apple's system does hide files from users, but they are still there you just have to know how to look for them.
MSFT's system I am waiting for, as speed most likely won't be there.