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Matt Sergeant wrote: > > USENET is a write-only database, no updates. No concurrency to worry > about. That's funny, I thought articles expired. Removal == write, doesn't it? Seriously, how many web sites are there? How many of them store the files that represent the pages in a filesystem? To use the UNIX parlance, the kernel namei() call is just a key/value lookup and a file system block is just a database BLOB in disguise. There are different levels of capability built into different filesystems (just like any other database). If you want versioning, look at Berkeley LFS or Elephant for good examples of how this can be accomplished through a VFS layer. I would like to see an XML-aware database that allows filesystem semantics. Arguing over whether to call this a database or a filesystem is like arguing over whether a song is in C major or A minor; they are actually two names for the same thing. -- Jack Rusher, Senior Engineer | mailto:jar@i... Integratus, Inc. | http://www.integratus.com
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