The New WinFS

The WinFS File System For Windows Longhorn: Faster & Smarter

http://www6.tomshardware.com/storage...617/index.html

And related Slashdottedness:

http://developers.slashdot.org/artic...id=185&tid=190

"Tom's Hardware Guide has an article about the new WinFS file system. The article talks first about some of the problems and advantages with FAT[16|32] and NTFS, then talks briefly about WinFS. Here is the summary: 'Microsoft is breaking new ground with Longhorn, successor to XP. The upcoming WinFS file system will be the first to be context-dependent, and promises to make long search times and wasted memory a thing of the past. Today, THG compares it to FAT and NTFS.' Personally, I still have reservations about using a relational database to keep track of files. Unless they can keep the overhead to a minimum, I can't see it being as efficient as a file system should be."

I never could get straight the advantages of FAT32 v. NTFS - which is faster when you really need speed, the one that writes the FS entry first, or the one that writes the entry after it writes the file? Now I have to worry about WinFS. Ugh.