On Sat, Sep 13, 2014 at 9:39 AM, Richard Hipp <d...@sqlite.org> wrote:
> I say that a filesystem is an eventually-consistent key/value database. > The keys are the filenames and the values are all big BLOBs, specifically > the file content. Filesystems also have a hierarchical keyspace, which is > an extension from the usual key/value concept, but it is still key/value. > Dan Bernstein, author of qmail & djbdns (among others), used the file system as a configuration database for those applications. Rather than having a text configuration file, he used the directory and file names as keys and their contents as values. I seem to recall him later regretting this choice (in part, anyway) but I always thought there was a certain elegance to that solution. It's not perfect, but what is? -- Scott Robison _______________________________________________ sqlite-users mailing list sqlite-users@sqlite.org http://sqlite.org:8080/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/sqlite-users
