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From: Hans Reiser <reiser@namesys.com>
Subject: Re: file as a directory
Date: Tue, 14 Dec 2004 21:31:51 -0800
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To: David Masover <ninja@slaphack.com>
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David Masover wrote:

>
>
> Remember that a filesystem is a specialized database. It is specialized
> for performance. 

Yes, this is exactly right.  The reason earlier efforts to generalize 
filesystems failed was performance, and the reason performance reduced 
was a lack of hard work on the problem.