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From: Daniel Phillips <phillips@bonn-fries.net>
To: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>,
        ingo.oeser@informatik.tu-chemnitz.de (Ingo Oeser)
Subject: Re: Editing-in-place of a large file
Date: Mon, 3 Sep 2001 16:31:55 +0200
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On September 3, 2001 12:48 pm, Alan Cox wrote:
> > That is reimplementing file system functionality in user space. 
> > I'm in doubts that this is considered good design...
> 
> Keeping things out of the kernel is good design. Your block indirections
> are no different to other database formats. Perhaps you think we should
> have fsql_operation() and libdb in kernel 8)

For that matter, he could use a database file.  I don't know if Postgres (for 
example) supports streaming read/write from a database record, but if it 
doesn't it could be made to.

Or if he doesn't want to hack Postgres today, he can put his "metadata" in a 
database file and the video data in a separate file.

--
Daniel