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Subject: Re: Editing-in-place of a large file
To: ingo.oeser@informatik.tu-chemnitz.de (Ingo Oeser)
Date: Mon, 3 Sep 2001 11:48:39 +0100 (BST)
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> 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)