I remember M$ touting a new file system called CIFS. I wonder what happened to that... This time they're playing the WinFS horn in their new OS codenamed Longhorn.
WinFS is supposed to be M$'s new file system that will make searches faster by maintaining multiple indexes. Also, it also has a built-in RDBMS engine for tracking files...
More here: http://www.tomshardware.com/storage/20030617/index.html
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On Thu, Jun 19, 2003 at 10:02:19AM +0530, Amol Hatwar wrote:
I remember M$ touting a new file system called CIFS. I wonder what happened to that...
Errr ... I thought SMB (and also SaMBa) are implementations of the CIFS specification? Some high-end Unices also ship with a licensed implementation of CIFS as well ... that's the same specification that was in focus some time ago because Microsoft put a "virus-like" license on it to hinder the Samba community.
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