From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S261580AbULTRVn (ORCPT ); Mon, 20 Dec 2004 12:21:43 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S261581AbULTRVn (ORCPT ); Mon, 20 Dec 2004 12:21:43 -0500 Received: from rwcrmhc12.comcast.net ([216.148.227.85]:45743 "EHLO rwcrmhc11.comcast.net") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S261580AbULTRVk (ORCPT ); Mon, 20 Dec 2004 12:21:40 -0500 Message-ID: <41C70A1F.8000609@namesys.com> Date: Mon, 20 Dec 2004 09:21:35 -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: David Masover , Peter Foldiak , reiserfs-list@namesys.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Nate Diller Subject: Re: file as a directory References: <200412180152.iBI1q98X007507@laptop11.inf.utfsm.cl> In-Reply-To: <200412180152.iBI1q98X007507@laptop11.inf.utfsm.cl> X-Enigmail-Version: 0.85.0.0 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 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.