Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 14 Dec 2004 21:10:05 -0800 | From | Hans Reiser <> | 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. > > A journey of a thousand leagues begins with a single step.
Actually, databases are the wrong solution because they are relational, 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 - 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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