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    Horst von Brand wrote:
    | Peter Foldiak <Peter.Foldiak@st-andrews.ac.uk> said:
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    | [...]
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    |>Perhaps a better way to think about this is that instead of talking
    |>about directories and files, we just talk about objects.
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    |
    | Then you have a collection of interrelated objects, i.e., a database.
    | Operating systems that work on databases (no filesystem) have been done,
    | and are a nice idea... but are far, far away from Unix.

    Really? Because most Unix tools don't behave all that strangely when I
    enable metadata. If Linux incrementally changes into something that is
    not Unix, what is lost, besides the name?

    Remember that a filesystem is a specialized database. It is specialized
    for performance. If Hans can generalize it without losing that
    performance, who can complain?
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