Keep in mind that just because Windows does thing a certain way
doesn't mean we have to provide the same functionality in exactly the
same way.
Also keep in mind that Microsoft very deliberately blurs what they do
in their "kernel" versus what they provide via system libraries (i.e.,
API's provided via their DLL's, or shared libraries).
At some level what they have done can be very easily replicated by
having a userspace database which is tied to the filesystem so you can
do select statements to search on metadata assocated with files.
WeWhat a performance nightmare. Updating a user space database every time a file changes --- let's move to a micro-kernel architecture for all of the kernel the same day.....;-)
can do this simply by associating UUID's to files, and storing the
file metadata in a MySQL database which can be searched via
appropriate userspace libraries which we provide.
Please do **not** assume that just because of the vaporware pressHow about you send him a patch that removes all of that networking stuff from the kernel and puts it into user space where it belongs.;-) There was this Windows user on Slashdot some time ago who claimed that it wasn't just the browser that should be unbundled from the kernel, the whole networking stack was unfairly bundled and locked out the companies that used to provide DOS with networking stacks (the user didn't have in mind patching the windows kernel and recompiling, he really thought it should all be in user space). Your kind of fellow.....
releases released by Microsoft that (a) they have pushed an SQL Query
optimizer into the kernel or that (b) even if they did, we should
follow their bad example and attempt to do the same.
There are multiple ways of skinning this particular cat, and we don't
need to blindly follow Microsoft's design mistakes.
Fortunately, I have enough faith in Linus Torvalds' taste that I'm not
particularly worried what would happen if someone were to send him a
patch that attempted to cram MySQL or Postgres into the guts of the
Linux kernel.... although I would like to watch when someone proposes
such a thing!
- Ted