640K is enough RAM for anyone... How long does "find / -name test" take to complete on a server with 5 million files on it? Compare that to a "select test from hda3" statement on a database with 5 million records.
People already use workarounds (such as locate on Linux desktops or FindFast on legacy Windows desktops) because of the performance problems of our current File Systems. They are inadequate. And the amount of stored info is RAPIDLY increasing. In addition to performance... Look at /proc, or /dev, etc. More is being expected of the file system, because it makes sense to see it as part of the file system. This will increase, not decrease over time. Kev. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Aaron J. Seigo" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Thursday, June 05, 2003 4:29 PM Subject: Re: (clug-talk) File System?? > -----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? > > i think there is a large place for both and those saying otherwise have a > vested interest. > > - -- > 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----- > >
