Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 14 Dec 2004 22:52:12 -0600 | From | David Masover <> | Subject | Re: file as a directory |
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Horst von Brand wrote: | Peter Foldiak <Peter.Foldiak@st-andrews.ac.uk> said: | | [...] | | |>Perhaps a better way to think about this is that instead of talking |>about directories and files, we just talk about objects. | | | 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? -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.6 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Thunderbird - http://enigmail.mozdev.org
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