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Matthew.Wilcox@genedata.com (Matthew Wilcox)  wrote on 07.11.99 in <19991107121900.C24455@mencheca.ch.genedata.com>:

> On Sun, Nov 07, 1999 at 09:10:00AM +0200, Kai Henningsen wrote:
> > The filesystem *is* a database - a *specialized* database. A typical Unix
> > fs, for example, allows for exactly one type of key (a pathname) and has
> > only BLOBs for non-key data fields (the file data). OTOH, an AS/400 file
> > system is just a view onto a relational database. (Even the active
> > processes are in that database.)
>
> /proc

Nope, not at all the same thing.

/proc is a fs view of the processes. The AS/400 has a fs view of a
relational database, and the processes are *part of that database*. (Among
other things, they survive reboots.)

It's a seriously strange OS.

MfG Kai

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