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Re:Dotfile madness by spockz on Saturday February 02, 2019 @05:33PM (#19066227)
Wasn’t this the whole idea and purpose of the successor to NTFS which was supposed to ship with Longhorn/Vista? What happened there?
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Re:Dotfile madness by asveikau on Saturday February 02, 2019 @09:32PM (#19067432)
The story I heard was that performance sucked. Granted it could have sucked for other reasons, as other failed efforts like writing more OS components in C# were happening at the same time.
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Re:Dotfile madness by darkpuma on Saturday February 02, 2019 @07:05PM (#19066770)
WinFS. I don't know much about it, but I understand it was to have some properties similar to what I've described.
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