On Mon, 7 Oct 2002, Jim Dawson wrote: > Be tried this but couldn't get it to work with acceptable performace, > but that was about 10 years ago so it might work OK with today's > hardware. Microsoft is supposedly working on something like this for the > next major version of Windows, but I keep remembering how the 'major new > all-32-bit (HA!) replacment for Windows 3.11 was supposed to come out in > '93, then '94, then early '95, then mid-'95, and NT 5.0 was supposed to > come out in '97 then '98, then early '99, then mid-'99, then late-'99, > then 2000. and so on... > > -----Original Message----- > From: Todd Lyons <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Date: Fri, 4 Oct 2002 12:10:12 -0700 > Subject: Re: [expert] Database filsystems > > Olaf Marzocchi wrote on Fri, Oct 04, 2002 at 03:01:54PM +0200 : > > OK, I'll try to use an sql db, even if a real db fs would be much more > > simple to use (let's imagine a "classes" field in the file properties > > windows, either konqueror or nautilus or whatever else file manager...). > > I can definitely see the advantage to what you're looking for. You're > trying to build an application layer into the fs (and assume that you > would then remove the raw filesystem access). Nobody to my knowledge > has done this, but it doesn't mean it's a bad idea. It's just an idea > that nobody has found a motivating enough reason to code it for Linux. > > It seems to me that I've heard of this somewhere. I'm just trying to > put my finger on where. I'll ask in the reiser list I suppose and see > what others' gut responses are. > > Blue skies... Todd
I looked for a similar thing a while back. This was the response from cbbrowne on the comp.os.linux.misc list: Date: Mon, 14 Jan 2002 14:09:19 -0500 From: Christopher Browne <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: filesystem on database project <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > About a year ago I remember reading about a project to use a database > based filesystem on Linux. It would allow near instantaneous searches > and automatically store version information for all files. Searches on > the web have only turned up references to BEOS and some VMS stuff from > when I was in diapers. Does anyone remember the name of this filesystem? See: <http://www.linuxjournal.com/article.php?sid=1383> The idea was to have a pseudo-filesystem that would be mounted as an NFS server, and store files in a PostgreSQL database. Code hasn't been sighted in some years now.
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