Re: file as a directory

[Hans Reiser]

Horst von Brand wrote:

> > > Can you point me to any such literature?  I'm just curious.
> > >      
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> > Look in every field of cs except filesystems and kernels.;-)
> >    
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> 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.

>  
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> >                                                             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...
>
>  
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> >                         Specific reference, no, I didn't collect them, 
> > sorry, but alexander the befs driver guy knows more than I about this.
> >    
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> 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.
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