Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 2 Sep 1998 12:48:45 -0400 (EDT) | From | Alex Buell <> | Subject | Re: Implementing Meta File information in Linux (and a note at the end on current reiserfs status) |
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On Wed, 2 Sep 1998, Stephen C. Tweedie wrote:
> Just because layering can be done badly does not mean that layering is > bad. libdb/libdbm etc. are useful. VMS takes it to extremes, with the > OS providing RMS (Record Management Services) which perform high-level, > network-aware transactional record and indexing services in a very > general manner. As an ex-VMS maintainer, I can tell you that lots of > applications use RMS, because it is so amazingly fast.
Yep, RMS rocks my world too. Wish we had something like that implemented in Linux.
Heck, maybe I should implement a VMS style personality on top of Linux. LinuxVMS sounds cool. :o) And what about that lovely DCL command language? *drool*
Cheers, Alex.
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