• From: Matt Sergeant <matt@s...>
• To: Jack Rusher <jar@i...>
• Date: Tue, 25 Jul 2000 00:40:25 +0100 (BST)

On Mon, 24 Jul 2000, Jack Rusher wrote:

> "W. E. Perry" wrote:
> > 
> > IMHO, this will have to be a DBMS, not simply a filesystem. The underlying
> 
>   This is the point in every conversation of this type where I feel the
> need to point out that a filesystem is a database.  The most used
> database in the world is probably UFS (demonstrable simply through the
> volume of data that moves through USENET every day).

USENET is a write-only database, no updates. No concurrency to worry
about.

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