Re: Patent
Matthew Wilcox (Matthew.Wilcox@genedata.com)
Sun, 7 Nov 1999 12:19:00 +0100
On Sun, Nov 07, 1999 at 09:10:00AM +0200, Kai Henningsen wrote:
> The filesystem *is* a database - a *specialized* database. A typical Unix
> fs, for example, allows for exactly one type of key (a pathname) and has
> only BLOBs for non-key data fields (the file data). OTOH, an AS/400 file
> system is just a view onto a relational database. (Even the active
> processes are in that database.)
/proc
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Matthew Wilcox <willy@bofh.ai>
"Windows and MacOS are products, contrived by engineers in the service of
specific companies. Unix, by contrast, is not so much a product as it is a
painstakingly compiled oral history of the hacker subculture." - N Stephenson
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