The future of the Linux filesystem

The future of the Linux filesystem

Posted Nov 6, 2003 7:44 UTC (Thu) by arcticwolf (guest, #8341)
Parent article: The future of the Linux filesystem

Applications will be able to set up their own schemas for their specific object types [...]

That sounds suspiciously like OS/2's Extended Attributes in the HPFS filesystem. And I think the next sentence really hits the nail on the head:

if mail agents can agree on a email message schema, then users should be able to switch easily between them.

*If* they do, the user *should* be able to. I think it's not reasonable to expect that this will actually happen with proprietary products, though - to stay with the email example, there already are standard formats, but most vendors still seem to choose their own, proprietary format so that migrating away from their product to another client becomes more difficult.

One could just as well expect Microsoft to use a truly open and standardized format for their Office suit, for example.

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