Aaron J. Seigo said: > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > On Thursday 05 June 2003 04:15, Trevor Lauder wrote: >> Kevin Anderson said: >> > I'd add that Reiser wants to be very extended. I don't think it's >> there >> > yet, but it wants to turn the file system into a database. >> >> Yeah, this is pretty much the future for filesystems in Linux & Windows. >> I know Microsoft is planning on getting rid of NTFS (FAT/FAT32 are >> pretty >> much already on the way out) fairly soon and replacing the filesystem >> with >> a SQL database. The last I heard,this was planned on being released >> after >> 2 more major versions of Windows. ReiserFS is already going in this >> direction as you said, and the filesystems that choose not to will >> probably eventually become unpopular to all but a select few since this >> is >> a better way to do things compared with the current system. > > select few, as in the majority of people running file, print, web and > database > servers for whom a metadata rich filesystem is pretty much useless bloat > and > overhead?
Well, perhaps there will be many situations where a database filesystem won't offer enough extra benefit to merit adoption. However I still feel many people that run file, print, web, and database servers will find database servers offer more benefit then bloat and overhead. A carefully designed implementation should be more reliable then our current systems, and offer less overhead. Remember they are trying to find faster and more efficient systems to our current one, not the other way... although that can sometimes happen :) Being able to search and index a global database will be a great advantage to people trying to harness the power of things like PHP/SQL. > > i think there is a large place for both and those saying otherwise have a > vested interest. I'm not sure what you are accusing me of here, but I have no vested interest in database filesystems. It's just one of those emerging technologies I feel has great potential in a web-enabled world. :) > - -- > Aaron J. Seigo > GPG Fingerprint: 8B8B 2209 0C6F 7C47 B1EA EE75 D6B7 2EB1 A7F1 DB43 > > KDE: The 'K' is for 'kick ass' > http://www.kde.org http://promo.kde.org/3.1/feature_guide.php > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- > Version: GnuPG v1.2.2-rc1-SuSE (GNU/Linux) > > iD8DBQE+38Q71rcusafx20MRAmA8AKChKSE+001JFaU2tkI2n15YJV4PowCfYzWi > Fs2lPjxn5tFD8XQBA1ocazY= > =xTCp > -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- > >
