Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 20 Dec 2004 09:21:35 -0800 | From | Hans Reiser <> | Subject | Re: file as a directory |
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Horst von Brand wrote:
> >>>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. > > There is a huge pile of innovations by the database field that filesystems people do not yet make use of. The merits of interdisciplinary study are understood by many.
> > >> 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. >> >> > >Furious handwaving doesn't make it true. > > Ok, go talk to the befs driver guy, and you'll find out he has already done work on it.
If his work does not satisfy you, sorry, I do detailed research just before coding, not to satisfy some guy on lkml. - 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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