Where else would you put a database? (was: Re: PATCH: Raw device IO for 2.1.131)

david parsons (o.r.c@p.e.l.l.p.o.r.t.l.a.n.d.o.r.u.s)
14 Dec 1998 13:10:43 -0800


In article <linux.kernel.Pine.LNX.3.95.981213195126.682B-100000@localhost>,
Gerard Roudier <groudier@club-internet.fr> wrote:

>A database which is entirely implemented in user-land is technically
>a great crap in my opinion.

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.

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