On Sat, Sep 13, 2014 at 10:39 AM, Richard Hipp <d...@sqlite.org> wrote: > I say that a filesystem is an eventually-consistent key/value database.
Yes! > 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. POSIX semantics are such that it's easiest for me to think of the filesystem namespace as a set of {parent_inode_number, name, inode_number} rows, with a typical hierarchical self-join relation. Nico -- _______________________________________________ sqlite-users mailing list sqlite-users@sqlite.org http://sqlite.org:8080/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/sqlite-users