On Fri, Oct 31, 2003 at 02:27:25PM +0000, Jason Greenwood wrote: > It covers MS plans for Longhorn and it's > 'kernel level' inbuilt search ability. As if the NT kernel was not > bloated enough already...
that's skewing it abit. the kernel level search ability is related to the fact that the filesystem has more database capabilities. finding a file on disk is what a filesystem is about. linux has filesystems. linux finds files. linux has a kernel level search ability. (or where do you think does the path to a file get interpreted?) this is not a question if the kernel has search abilites, but only how good they are. the better they are, the more flexible you can lay out your data. the idea of a database like fs is not new, BeOS already had it. and i'll take a filesystem that supports files with arbbitrary metadata which is efficiently searchable any day over todays offerings. (now of course with linux userland fs capabilities it is probably not necessary to build support for such a database fs into the kernel, but would you install linux on a filesystem that is not supported by linux natively? i am not so sure) greetings, martin. -- interested in doing pike programming, sTeam/caudium/pike/roxen training, sTeam/caudium/roxen and/or unix system administration anywhere in the world. -- pike programmer working and travelling in europe open-steam.org unix system- bahai.or.at iaeste.(tuwien.ac|or).at administrator (stuts|black.linux-m68k).org is.(schon.org|root.at) Martin B�hr http://www.iaeste.or.at/~mbaehr/
