Re: file as a directory

[Hans Reiser]

Horst von Brand wrote:

> Peter Foldiak <Peter.Foldiak@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> said:
>
> [...]
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> > Perhaps a better way to think about this is that instead of talking
> > about directories and files, we just talk about objects.
> >    
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> Then you have a collection of interrelated objects, i.e., a database.
> Operating systems that work on databases (no filesystem) have been done,
> and are a nice idea... but are far, far away from Unix.
>  
A journey of a thousand leagues begins with a single step.

Actually, databases are the wrong solution because they are relational, 
and what is needed is a semi-structured query language that is upwardly 
compatible with Unix hierarchical semantics, ala 
www.namesys.com/future_vision.html
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