Linked by Thom Holwerda on Sun 18th May 2008 12:59 UTC, submitted by Adam S
Back when Windows Vista was still known as Windows Longhorn, the operating system contained a very interesting and promising feature, a feature promoted as one of the 'pillars' of Longhorn: WinFS. WinFS was a storage subsystem for Windows, based on a relational database, that could contain whatever data you wanted to put in it. Thanks to the relational properties of the database, you could then create relationships between data, or let the computer do that for you.
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2005-08-07
The other projects I linked against offer many concepts and code that /could/ be used to create an awful new tag-based or database-like filesystem. Maybe they are dead end just because people don't care about it.
Interesting thread here, and I'm giving up my ability to mod in this article to point out there is a new kid on the block (according to my copy of LXF105 any way, website looks like its been around awhile--maybe under a different name?) called Recoll.
http://www.lesbonscomptes.com/recoll/
Supposedly it uses less resources to do what beagle does and is faster as well....time will tell.
--bornagainpenguin