The WinFS File System
In the last decade there has been a “combination of trends and technologies” that will change the way people work with managing their data in the future. Because computers have become faster, bandwidth continues to increase, and data storage has increased, the amount of “digitally born data” has exploded (Rizzo, 2005). The increase in digital data has propelled Microsoft to invest in building a new way to manage data. WinFS (Windows Future Storage) is being developed by Microsoft to be used as an advanced storage system that shall be implemented on top of NTFS. Because WinFS is actually operating on top of NTFS, the only way to compare the two is to highlight the features of WinFS that distinguish it from NTFS.
“WinFS is modeled on the file system of the coming SQL server (Yukon), whose FS is based entirely on a relational database”(Ibelshäuser, 2004). According to the Wikipedia encyclopedia, “WinFS is not a physical file system; rather it......
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