Re: Things that Longhorn seems to be doing right

[Diego Calleja García]

El Wed, 29 Oct 2003 20:52:12 -0500 Theodore Ts'o <tytso@xxxxxxx> escribió:

> At some level what they have done can be very easily replicated by
> having a userspace database which is tied to the filesystem so you can
> do select statements to search on metadata assocated with files.  We
> can do this simply by associating UUID's to files, and storing the
> file metadata in a MySQL database which can be searched via
> appropriate userspace libraries which we provide.


Something like this?: http://www.gnome.org/~seth/storage/index.html

Another thing that Longhorn *is* doing right is the revamp of the "graphic
subsystem" aka Avalon, they seem to be trying to catch up with Mac OS X
in that field. 
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