WinFS made its first appearance as an optional component in the Windows "Longhorn" builds that Microsoft was producing internally through most of 2003. At the Microsoft Professional Developers Conference that year, the first build of "Longhorn" was given to developers. This became known as the "PDC Build", or Build 4051. The general consensus from developers and reviewers was that WinFS was unusable due to excessive memory requirements, unfriendly and under-documented developer API's, and no clear indication on how it was actually going to improve the day-to-day Windows user experience. In August 2004, Microsoft announced that WinFS would not ship with "Longhorn".
MORE ...WinFS includes support for synchronization with external data. WinFS Sync provides developers with a set of API's that allow for synchronizing with other WinFS stores (i.e. on other computers), as well as with connected devices like a mobile phone, or with Web services such as a web-mail server.
MORE ...WinFS's type system is tied to the .NET Framework's concept of classes and inheritance.
MORE ...From a technology standpoint, WinFS is made up of five components
MORE ...WinFS is not a physical file system; it is built on top of NTFS, and NTFS will remain as the default file system.
MORE ...WinFS is the code name of a Windows storage subsystem, being developed by Microsoft for use on its future Windows (c) Operating System. WinFS is a relational database located on NTFS and representing itself to the operating system as a file storage subsystem. The codename WinFS stands for Windows Future Storage.
MORE ...To replace pages or segments of data in memory. Swapping is a useful technique that enables a computer to execute programs and manipulate data files larger than main memory.
MORE ...The EXT3 or third extended file system is a journalled file system that is coming into increasing use among users of the Linux operating system. It is the default file system for the Red Hat, Fedora and Debian Linux distributions. Why to migrate from EXT2 to EXT3? Four main reasons: availability, data integrity, speed, and easy transition.
MORE ...The EXT2 or second extended file system is a file system for the Linux kernel. It was initially designed as a replacement for the extended file system.
MORE ...The Extended File System or EXT was the first file system created specifically for the Linux operating system.
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