OSNews > Thread > "RE[6]: It's basically dead." by Thom

Linked by Thom Holwerda on Sun 25th Jun 2006 11:48 UTC, submitted by RJay

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[6]: It's basically dead.

by Thom_Holwerda on Sun 25th Jun 2006 13:12 UTC in reply to "RE[5]: It's basically dead."

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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."

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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[8]: It's basically dead.

by sappyvcv on Sun 25th Jun 2006 13:19 in reply to "RE[7]: It's basically dead."

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2005-07-06

So the developers call it an extension to NTFS but you and some guy with the last name "Nutt" want to call it a file system.

Hmmmmm

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