Messages in this thread |  | | From | Daniel Phillips <> | Subject | Re: Editing-in-place of a large file | Date | Mon, 3 Sep 2001 16:31:55 +0200 |
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On September 3, 2001 12:48 pm, Alan Cox wrote: > > That is reimplementing file system functionality in user space. > > I'm in doubts that this is considered good design... > > Keeping things out of the kernel is good design. Your block indirections > are no different to other database formats. Perhaps you think we should > have fsql_operation() and libdb in kernel 8)
For that matter, he could use a database file. I don't know if Postgres (for example) supports streaming read/write from a database record, but if it doesn't it could be made to.
Or if he doesn't want to hack Postgres today, he can put his "metadata" in a database file and the video data in a separate file.
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