Re: Editing-in-place of a large file

From: Ben Ford (ben@kalifornia.com)
Date: Mon Sep 03 2001 - 16:19:16 EST

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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)
>

From what I've read, that is where windows is going!

-b

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