The New WinFS
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The WinFS File System For Windows Longhorn: Faster & Smarter
http://www6.tomshardware.com/storage/20030617/index.html
And related Slashdottedness:
http://developers.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/06/17/2337253&mode=thread&tid=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.
http://www6.tomshardware.com/storage/20030617/index.html
And related Slashdottedness:
http://developers.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/06/17/2337253&mode=thread&tid=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.
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~dodo
From the problems I see with databases right now, I shudder to think of the myriad of ways of messing it up.
I'll wait for SR2 before venturing down that path.
True, but defragging is necessary though. My brother doesn't see the point in why you would want to do that. He doesn't even run scandisk either.