Aaron, I think you should read Hans' article.
Kev. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Aaron J. Seigo" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Thursday, June 05, 2003 7:11 PM Subject: Re: (clug-talk) File System?? > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > On Thursday 05 June 2003 06:45, Trevor Lauder wrote: > > Aaron J. Seigo said: > > > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > > > Hash: SHA1 > > > > > > On Thursday 05 June 2003 04:47, Trevor Lauder wrote: > > >> A carefully > > >> designed implementation should be more reliable then our current > > >> systems, > > >> and offer less overhead. > > > > > > how so? assuming that the database approach means an extra layer between > > > the > > > inodes on disk and requests for those files, how is this of any benefit > > > to, > > > say, apache? > > > > I believe some of these implementations were going to get rid of files & > > directories completely. Everything, including the data would be in the > > DB.... not just the pointer information. So the DB wouldn't be an extra > > layer on top of the inodes in this case, it would just replace the > > file/directory structure we currently have. > > but putting it on disk still requires an on-disk format. whether it's the > database using a raw partition divided into pages and segments or files > mapped out via inodes on disk, a format will still exist. it's the difference > between chasing pointers around on disc versus a system where a data > structure is queried for addresses and then a lookup (or lookups) are made on > disk using those addresses into the on-disk format. again, depending on the > characteristics of your data and how you access it, one system will likely be > faster than the other. it's pretty obvious which one will take more RAM and > disk space ;-) > > > Microsoft's vested > > interest in this would be that they can further increase the strangle-hold > > they have on customers with proprietary file formats. It's hard enough > > now with a proprietary file format on a normal filesystem, I don't want to > > imagine how hard it would be with a DB filesystem if it was implemented by > > Microsoft and they weren't forced to publish the specs. > > yep =(( > > - -- > 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+3+ol1rcusafx20MRAoWMAJ4jZX/883xQmOWogb2gUziupNLgUwCbBwjF > tqZKBO9m20Gi9kIoiv6Uims= > =y2FN > -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- > >
