Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: file as a directory | Date | Wed, 15 Dec 2004 10:28:26 -0300 | From | Horst von Brand <> |
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Hans Reiser <reiser@namesys.com> said: > Horst von Brand wrote: > >Peter Foldiak <Peter.Foldiak@st-andrews.ac.uk> said:
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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.
> >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.
> A journey of a thousand leagues begins with a single step.
Right. But you need to know where you are going, and why.
> Actually, databases are the wrong solution because they are relational,
Says who?
> and what is needed is a semi-structured query language that is upwardly > compatible with Unix hierarchical semantics, ala > www.namesys.com/future_vision.html -- Dr. Horst H. von Brand User #22616 counter.li.org Departamento de Informatica Fono: +56 32 654431 Universidad Tecnica Federico Santa Maria +56 32 654239 Casilla 110-V, Valparaiso, Chile Fax: +56 32 797513 - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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