Re: review of the Storage interface

[Miguel de Icaza <miguel helixcode com>]

> * use long long for indexing into files
> 
> files can be larger than 4GB - only to be save!
> 
> *  added more exceptions
> 
> I compared the currently define exception with the error messages from
> gnome-vfs.
> 
> *   new revert method
> 
> If we support transaction, we need commit and revert! MS also supports that!
> 
> * added locking interface
> 
> as far as I know microsoft supports locking, and record locking (see Inside
> ole)

I agree with all those changes.

> * removed copy_to from stream
>
> I simply donīt understand why we need that - maybe we need it - but what for?

This is required, as it can be used to optimize the copy process
inside a storage.  copy_to just happens to be a very parametrized
version of it.

Miguel.