From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S261891AbULOExH (ORCPT ); Tue, 14 Dec 2004 23:53:07 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S261887AbULOEwq (ORCPT ); Tue, 14 Dec 2004 23:52:46 -0500 Received: from 69-18-3-179.lisco.net ([69.18.3.179]:41377 "EHLO slaphack.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S261882AbULOEwP (ORCPT ); Tue, 14 Dec 2004 23:52:15 -0500 Message-ID: <41BFC2FC.80905@slaphack.com> Date: Tue, 14 Dec 2004 22:52:12 -0600 From: David Masover User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 0.8 (X11/20040924) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Horst von Brand CC: Peter Foldiak , Hans Reiser , reiserfs-list@namesys.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: file as a directory References: <200412141930.iBEJUGdB019336@laptop11.inf.utfsm.cl> In-Reply-To: <200412141930.iBEJUGdB019336@laptop11.inf.utfsm.cl> X-Enigmail-Version: 0.86.0.0 X-Enigmail-Supports: pgp-inline, pgp-mime Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Horst von Brand wrote: | Peter Foldiak 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. Really? Because most Unix tools don't behave all that strangely when I enable metadata. If Linux incrementally changes into something that is not Unix, what is lost, besides the name? Remember that a filesystem is a specialized database. It is specialized for performance. If Hans can generalize it without losing that performance, who can complain? -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.6 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Thunderbird - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iQIVAwUBQb/C+3gHNmZLgCUhAQIjGg/+M17+XviIqi+uFy3RR6x8csoPne3KYBlL cnjoDML4JZAXLn0YdDKAafCa1kt4xCbPYa/ZQjqw9RzUbnf6YEtdrvuVsLxsTC7t yAHQDSFCpQ1ssCsy5S2ku80Srx6LkTf2R33F8BMr0hTVNg5eoDEL2RuOtT8tJ0g5 gMrdX04BIM4gxQEv2elvfNIm7cxyAv1aBvurcpb/VPckoaUChPQSgauuS6rJ0oYu AmLhkLBZ+8NloQ2U4tKHdY8YrQWtLAzeyG+rYwIFxjPWRMUG54WYAVD+G2R6a9bN nksqOtZ19lcCdjBOb5+5Wa3sOEOgwYRKySS4H/S/TTBI8cbm5+7tDwi30E4eiV9C PQUi+yi3+18j+cp3Of+AhZsA99PgjJ9q7GKaC10SX5/gk0d2jq0TwADBR1v2EdbM cABfKnaXWnS0RzqFARF/MZaZz++KWAbmsZwnTk7N9Tm2AfKSRjFb5wqsKbV01F+i XltsPGnYj0f4DYKrSxQRxkhQxC5J9b2P69N9JhplvzcvAVQWIMvhPsU10i4vm7oN GJi+ncuYzmdQQXB0Sxpar5uwdYj+xgcWcK35iX4mGG9E6CWythpKJQFq85u/KKsX J37o0CcxY1eseV+5qgYEeGm0eLuoxllaKNW9yJzsX9Xf2qxUoS1mr0si2eFulsLh z72g9LoNfyg= =hIBh -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----