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List:       linux-kernel
Subject:    Re: Summary of how linux can best avoid the need for streams
From:       Marc Mutz <Marc () Mutz ! com>
Date:       1999-06-30 21:13:21
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Frank Butter wrote:
> 
> On 30-Jun-99 Richard Gooch wrote:
> > Hans Reiser writes:
> >>
> >> I am not saying put an FS into a file, I am saying make the filesystem
> >> effective enough that nobody needs to create things like structured
> >> storage.  Given that as a goal, what is needed?
> >
> > I don't even concede this goal. In some cases "structured storage"
> > inside a file is quite reasonable and efficient.
> >
> > However, I would agree that for some applications that FS-based
> > structured storage is much better than file-based structured storage.
> 
> just an idea (maybe it's not that new, plz don't flame me...).
> couldn't one think about a filesystem beeing just a database
> including several possibilities of structuring
> (structure as a method defined right before access fitting the
> specific needs of that access) and with several levels of access
> allowing different "views" for different userlevels?
> of course, this is just a theoretical view, there still would have
> to be found a proper implementation allowing a
> reasonable performance...
> 
Isn't that what BeOS does? Has anyone experience with the BeFS (or
whatever it's called?)? How it performs in contrast to classical fs's?

Marc


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