From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S262251AbTJ3IKL (ORCPT ); Thu, 30 Oct 2003 03:10:11 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S262253AbTJ3IKL (ORCPT ); Thu, 30 Oct 2003 03:10:11 -0500 Received: from thebsh.namesys.com ([212.16.7.65]:2976 "HELO thebsh.namesys.com") by vger.kernel.org with SMTP id S262251AbTJ3IKH (ORCPT ); Thu, 30 Oct 2003 03:10:07 -0500 Message-ID: <3FA0C75E.9000601@namesys.com> Date: Thu, 30 Oct 2003 11:10:06 +0300 From: Hans Reiser User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.5) Gecko/20031007 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Christian Axelsson CC: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: Things that Longhorn seems to be doing right References: <3F9F7F66.9060008@namesys.com> <3FA0BCDE.7080201@lanil.mine.nu> In-Reply-To: <3FA0BCDE.7080201@lanil.mine.nu> X-Enigmail-Version: 0.76.7.0 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 Christian Axelsson wrote: > Hans Reiser wrote: > >> They are building in support for transactions into the OS. >> >> Everything will be in XML. (It is not so important what format it is >> in, as it is that they are going to do it in one format.) >> >> Support for browsing versions in the FS. >> >> Support for browsing and querying XML their unified format. Ok, so >> SQL sucks, but this is still better than what we offer today in Linux. > > > I think this is better implemented in userspace somehow to keep the > kernel away from bloat. > What do you think of the GNOME Storage project: > http://www.gnome.org/~seth/storage/ > > Its not exactly the same but maybe its going in that direction. > well, I much much prefer www.namesys.com/whitepaper.html ;-) The reasons why SQL sucks for semi-structured data are described there. -- Hans