Alain's Globosphere

All what I wanted really from a file system is a smart lower layer, something you can call NTFS2, but a one that can handle very large amounts of files without knowing their contents.

I wanted all the basic things, like hard drive snapshots, the possibility to truncate a folder, like deleing 1,000,000+ files in no time (similar to the database) etc.

Try today deleting a folder with a million files, and tell me how many hours will it take :-)

I wanted a system that stores the file information itself to a database, a very simple database, not a database of the file contents.

And as expected, all what Microsoft wanted is that damn email message, the one used in all samples since the beginning of the 1990s, how to split it to its smallest pieces and store it in a smart file system.

But people are just repeating the mistakes, well; I think whoever writes a simple file system driver for windows, with a file allocation table similar to a database, a simple dbf table, and the source code is there on the internet, whoever does that, will be the next milliner.

The files on my machine are just not going anywhere, they are growing and growing, and Microsoft (nether the competitors) has a file system capable of handling them all, well, ntfs can store them, but what about performance :-)

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