Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: file as a directory | Date | Fri, 17 Dec 2004 22:52:09 -0300 | From | Horst von Brand <> |
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Hans Reiser <reiser@namesys.com> said: > David Masover wrote: > > Hans Reiser wrote: > > [...] > > | My solution is to tell Nate Diller that there is extensive literature on > > | it, that it isn't really the big problem it is made out to be, and leave > > | it to him to go read the literature and code it up after he finishes the > > | required tasks of our current darpa contract.;-)
> > Can you point me to any such literature? I'm just curious.
> Look in every field of cs except filesystems and kernels.;-)
Right. Smart people are found elsewhere only.
> Databases, > garbage collectors, etc.
Everthing stuff that works on the assumption that what they are working on fits in RAM (or can overflow into swap space in a pinch), and that RAM is fast (and even so they are infuriatingly slow). And disks are usually a few thousand times larger than RAM (more stuff to shuffle around) and a million times slower...
> Specific reference, no, I didn't collect them, > sorry, but alexander the befs driver guy knows more than I about this.
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