From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S261882AbULOFKR (ORCPT ); Wed, 15 Dec 2004 00:10:17 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S261887AbULOFKR (ORCPT ); Wed, 15 Dec 2004 00:10:17 -0500 Received: from rwcrmhc11.comcast.net ([204.127.198.35]:44764 "EHLO rwcrmhc11.comcast.net") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S261882AbULOFKM (ORCPT ); Wed, 15 Dec 2004 00:10:12 -0500 Message-ID: <41BFC72D.2070800@namesys.com> Date: Tue, 14 Dec 2004 21:10:05 -0800 From: Hans Reiser User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.7.2) Gecko/20040803 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Horst von Brand CC: Peter Foldiak , 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: 0.85.0.0 X-Enigmail-Supports: pgp-inline, pgp-mime Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org 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. > > 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