On Thu, Oct 10, 2002 at 05:56:31PM -0500, Paul DuBois wrote: > At 12:58 +0200 10/10/02, Alex Polite wrote: > >Is there any way I could display a MySQL database as a filesystem > >under Linux? > > What does that mean?
What I want is a device that actually is an interface to a db table. I mount (read only would suffice for my needs) the device on some mount point, cd into that directory and will then be able to see entries in the db table represented as files. One part of creating the device is of course the formulation of an SQL query that will decide what entries to the display, what field constitutes the file etc, etc. I can imagine a lot of uses for this. Say for instance that you want to organize digital photographs in MySQL db. (Not that I would want to do such a strange thing, just for the sake of the argument :) When you want to view the pictures you have to either write them as files and then use any picture viewer to view those files or get a picture viewer that can talk directly to MySQL. I'm very found of a picture viewer (freevo.sourceforge.net) that (at the moment) can't talk to MySQL. I want to store my pictures in MySQL and I want to be able to look at them in Freevo. So either I hack up Freevo to use MySQL or I thwart MySQL into behaving as something Freevo already knows how to access: a filesystem. alex -- Alex Polite http://plusseven.com/gpg --------------------------------------------------------------------- Before posting, please check: http://www.mysql.com/manual.php (the manual) http://lists.mysql.com/ (the list archive) To request this thread, e-mail <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To unsubscribe, e-mail <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Trouble unsubscribing? Try: http://lists.mysql.com/php/unsubscribe.php
