Linked by J. Scott Edwards on Fri 17th Dec 2004 18:51 UTC
Every hard-core OS aficionado has done it: Laid out a grand scheme for creating the perfect OS. Taking all the best features and attributes from the OSes we love, and making sure to assiduously avoid the pitfalls of the OSes we don't. Maybe our goals were modest, and we just wanted a slightly tweaked version of an existing OS. But sometimes we're feeling ambitious, and we have large, creative ideas for revolutionizing computing. Long-time OSNews reader and contributor J. Scott Edwards just couldn't help himself, and he has set about to not only plan, but to try to build his dream OS.
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I think hierarchical filesystem evolution to the usage of database like file system has already began,(Apple: SpotLight,
Gnome: Storage, Microsoft: WinFS and many other attempts).
It might be slower from traditional filesystems in the beggining and it might be first just a layer on top of lets say ext3 or NTFS, but it seems that it will find it's own seperate path when database technology allows faster access to
the stored objects comparable to the hierarchical organization of files.