> 
> I think the latter approach would produce a more usable, less frustrating
> filesystem than the former.
> 

plan 9 seems to me to be firmly in the fs rather than
the database camp.

before i moved to plan 9, i thought that locate was a
very cool tool.  things had gotten mighty hard to find
in linux.  since i've moved to plan 9, i just don't have
that problem.  even when struck with real desperation
on coraid's worm, a find on main takes not too long:

minooka; cd /n/ila
minooka; time rc -c 'find . | wc'
 356164  356164 13987863
1.24u 1.38s 6.65r        rc -c find . | wc

- erik

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