WinFS - moving to SQL (Katmai) and then available to everyone - honest

re: WinFS - moving to SQL (Katmai) and then available to everyone - honest

iQubed — Wed, 28 Jun 2006 13:40:22 GMT

Quentin's update on this issue is pretty honest, which I can respect http://blogs.msdn.com/winfs/archive/2006/06/26/648075.aspx

Making a relational data store behave like the Windows File System was never going to be easy and also to get the performance. Let's face it NTFS is pretty damn good, never lost data on a hard shutdown!

One interesting thing I saw recently on Vista was the fact that you can have a connection string using ADO.NET to the search system and your applications can search the disk! That's a cool interface!

re: WinFS - moving to SQL (Katmai) and then available to everyone - honest

David Overton — Tue, 27 Jun 2006 00:35:16 GMT

I will write a fuller explaination tomorrow, but basically, the register is back to mis-understandings. WinFS has always been slated on top of NTFS. The IFS driver is available today to make a database look like a file system, but why do it - the advantages of a relational databases to stores general files just does not exist. Storing meta data on files and relational information does.

ttfn

David

re: WinFS - moving to SQL (Katmai) and then available to everyone - honest

iQubed — Mon, 26 Jun 2006 22:43:32 GMT

Hi Dave,

Wasn't WinFS supposed to be a native filestore? Okay the storage was going to be SQL based, that's fair enough but the announcement now is something else, surely? Almost all the comments on Quentin's blog seemed to have this impression, they can't all have been mistaken? If Microsoft have decided to change this (for whatever reason), then that's their right to do so, but why not just admit that?

I know The Register isn't always accurate on some of it's reporting but nevertheless, I think it has a point! http://www.theregister.co.uk/2006/06/26/winfs_axed/

Cheers,

Vijay