Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sun, 7 Nov 1999 12:19:00 +0100 | From | Matthew Wilcox <> | Subject | Re: Patent |
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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.)
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-- Matthew Wilcox <willy@bofh.ai> "Windows and MacOS are products, contrived by engineers in the service of specific companies. Unix, by contrast, is not so much a product as it is a painstakingly compiled oral history of the hacker subculture." - N Stephenson
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