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re: filesystems


re:  filesystems
Simon St.Laurent writes:

 > "The filesystem is a database, but it has always been unsuitable as the
 > computer's primary one. Programmers have to write specialized programs
 > to get the functionality they need. Now, new advances in software like
 > Plan 9, the Reiser 4 filesystem and Linux are making the improvements
 > the filesystem needs to become viable. Plan 9 is using the filesystem
 > as the integral system interface, and the Reiser filesystem is unifying
 > pointlessly different but equivalent namespaces. For operating systems
 > to improve for users (that always includes programmers), they need to
 > incorporate these new ideas."

Personally, I use Reiser because it will fit multiple small files into
a single block; when working with GIS data, I can save over 10GB of
disk space simply over Ext[23].  We won't even start talking about
FAT32 with small files ...

 > Cool stuff, well worth thinking about, even though it isn't directly
 > XML.

Not directly, but there's some obvious convergence.


All the best,


David

-- 
David Megginson, david@m..., http://www.megginson.com/

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