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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
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David Megginson, david@megginson.com, http://www.megginson.com/
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- From: "Simon St.Laurent" <simonstl@simonstl.com>
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