Star WinFS Team Blog: WinFS Update
Linked by Thom Holwerda on Sun 25th Jun 2006 11:48 UTC, submitted by RJay
Microsoft WinFS seems to have been cancelled-- sort of. "These changes do mean that we are not pursuing a separate delivery of WinFS, including the previously planned Beta 2 release. With most of our effort now working towards productizing mature aspects of the WinFS project into SQL and ADO.NET, we do not need to deliver a separate WinFS offering."
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RE[5]: It's basically dead.
by sappyvcv on Sun 25th Jun 2006 13:09 UTC in reply to "RE[4]: It's basically dead."
sappyvcv
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2005-07-06

How come the developers have said before that it's not a file system then?

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RE[6]: It's basically dead.
by Thom_Holwerda on Sun 25th Jun 2006 13:12 in reply to "RE[5]: It's basically dead."
Thom_Holwerda Member since:
2005-06-29

To me, this is really simple: WinFS is a database running on top of NTFS, organizing the files on that NTFS volume in such a way that they can be manipulated as if they are in a database.

A filesystem atop a filesystem don't make no sense to me.

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RE[7]: It's basically dead.
by dylansmrjones on Sun 25th Jun 2006 13:16 in reply to "RE[6]: It's basically dead."
dylansmrjones Member since:
2005-10-02

It does to me, though.

You ought to read Gary Nutt's "Operating Systems".
It would explain how it's possible.

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RE[6]: It's basically dead.
by dylansmrjones on Sun 25th Jun 2006 13:18 in reply to "RE[5]: It's basically dead."
dylansmrjones Member since:
2005-10-02

I'm not aware of such statements.
I am however aware that it's not a classical FS in any low-level sense, but I'm not aware they have claimed that it's not a FS in a high-level sense.

The article clearly shows that WinFS _was_ intended as a FS.

How come the developers are saying it is dead as a high-level file system if it wasn't intended to be such a thing?

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RE[7]: It's basically dead.
by sappyvcv on Sun 25th Jun 2006 13:22 in reply to "RE[6]: It's basically dead."
sappyvcv Member since:
2005-07-06

They basically said it was originally intended as a file system back in the Win95 days, but it is no longer a file system, but an extension of NTFS. I'll find a link for you.

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