Gerard Roudier wrote:
>A database which is entirely implemented in user-land is technically
>a great crap in my opinion.
True.
david parsons asked:
> Where else would you put it? I suppose that you *could* write a
> database as lkm's (sybase on Novell, for example, but on that system
> _any_ third-party application is a lkm, with the expected hilarity
> when the application scribbles someplace it doesn't want to.)
>
> It's an application, and userland is an *ideal* place to put applications.
The buffer cache and the low level btree/record management should be in the
kernel. It's really hairy (and slow) to implement this for concurrent
access in user space. A generic locking mechanism would be another candidate.
Ciao, ET.
PS: I wish, there would be a register_fcntl() to implement such things.
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