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From: Hans Reiser <reiser@namesys.com>
Subject: Re: file as a directory
Date: Tue, 14 Dec 2004 21:10:05 -0800
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To: Horst von Brand <vonbrand@inf.utfsm.cl>
Cc: Peter Foldiak <Peter.Foldiak@st-andrews.ac.uk>, reiserfs-list@namesys.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org

Horst von Brand wrote:

>Peter Foldiak <Peter.Foldiak@st-andrews.ac.uk> said:
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>>Perhaps a better way to think about this is that instead of talking
>>about directories and files, we just talk about objects.
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>Then you have a collection of interrelated objects, i.e., a database.
>Operating systems that work on databases (no filesystem) have been done,
>and are a nice idea... but are far, far away from Unix.
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A journey of a thousand leagues begins with a single step.

Actually, databases are the wrong solution because they are relational, 
and what is needed is a semi-structured query language that is upwardly 
compatible with Unix hierarchical semantics, ala 
www.namesys.com/future_vision.html