Comments on: Sweet filesystems

By: chris holland

chris holland — Mon, 24 Jul 2006 09:12:38 +0000

http://www.apple.com/macosx/features/spotlight/

yeah the file system that you describe pretty-much sounds like a blueprint of OS X Tiger’s file system, that powers Spotlight.

A lot of applications are making use of spotlight too. and 3rd-party developers can create plugins to have their application data indexed in special ways.

By: Kokito

Kokito — Thu, 29 Jun 2006 00:36:22 +0000

Dominic Giampaolo is at Apple, and my understanding is that he was in charge of the development of Spotlight. One can understand why…

By: Ryan

Ryan — Wed, 28 Jun 2006 17:33:11 +0000

Yeah, that’s the one I had heard of, actually. Maybe I was wrong about having heard Benoit is there.

By: Josh Lucas

Josh Lucas — Wed, 28 Jun 2006 17:09:09 +0000

Dominic Giampaolo, one of the authors of the BeFS, is also at Apple. He wrote a book about the file system and you can download it for free.

http://www.letterp.com/~dbg/

By: Ryan

Ryan — Mon, 26 Jun 2006 18:06:36 +0000

I heard that some of the BeOS engineers are at Apple now. In particular, I think Benoit (the guy who made BeFS) is at Apple now.

As for Open Source BeOS, I wouldn’t hold my breath. But at least there is Zeta if you want to pay for some BeOS R5 updates.

By: mookie

mookie — Mon, 26 Jun 2006 15:05:01 +0000

BeOS was a kick-ass OS. I loved it when it was out, it is too bad it never really caught on. Also, it is too bad Jean-Louis Gasse and Steve Jobs had their little squabble or whatever. BeOS could have been Mac OS X. Oh wells. Maybe some day they’ll Open Source BeOS.