From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S263389AbTEMKlP (ORCPT ); Tue, 13 May 2003 06:41:15 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S263455AbTEMKlP (ORCPT ); Tue, 13 May 2003 06:41:15 -0400 Received: from thebsh.namesys.com ([212.16.7.65]:18913 "HELO thebsh.namesys.com") by vger.kernel.org with SMTP id S263389AbTEMKlO (ORCPT ); Tue, 13 May 2003 06:41:14 -0400 Message-ID: <3EC0CEC2.706@namesys.com> Date: Tue, 13 May 2003 14:53:54 +0400 From: Hans Reiser User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.3a) Gecko/20021212 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Linux Kernel Mailing List Subject: WinFS delayed, this probably means more time for semi-structured Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org WinFS delayed, this probably means more time for semi-structured query languages to establish themselves instead of SQL Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit SQL would be just terrible for FS semantics to standardize on, and hopefully we will be able to deploy a semi-structured querying language alternative (www.namesys.com/whitepaper.html) before they ship. I was sort of expecting that they would be late, as they don't yet have a good technical foundation in their FS storage layer for adding database functionality, and we surely know that's a lot of work to create;-). http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/4/30670.html -- Hans