[ILUG] Longhorn

[Bernhard Rohrer]

> As far as I understand it ReiserFS4 has *full* data journaling...
though, it still concatonates files together...

the partitions were unaccessible - and did reiser not always have full 
journalling?
>
> The point though is that metadata as part of the file system is included
in the design.
>
interesting - I'll still wait a longlong time till i trus Reiser again.

> Deciding on *what* is meta data is best left to userspace tools and is
an ill definable topic.
>
indeed

> The notion of WinFS, in itself, is nothing more then a google killer for
the desktop... to stop Microsoft being out flanked by Google supplied
search and retrival tools on the Windows desktop.
>
so basically Beagle should do the job

> 1:
> Useless, slow disaster for WinFS.
>
likely.

> 2:
> €5,000,000 fines per day imposed from our friends in Brussels....

hehe. I so hope to see that. good way of getting the EU budget straight 
;-) M$ will take it's own sweet time to comply.... (and fight all the way)

cheers

Bernhard