Re: file as a directory

[Hans Reiser <reiser@namesys.com>]

Horst von Brand wrote:

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>>>Can you point me to any such literature?  I'm just curious.
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>>Look in every field of cs except filesystems and kernels.;-)
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>Right. Smart people are found elsewhere only.
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There is a huge pile of innovations by the database field that 
filesystems people do not yet make use of.  The merits of 
interdisciplinary study are understood by many.

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>>                                                             Databases, 
>>garbage collectors, etc.
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>Everthing stuff that works on the assumption that what they are working on
>fits in RAM (or can overflow into swap space in a pinch), and that RAM is
>fast (and even so they are infuriatingly slow). And disks are usually a few
>thousand times larger than RAM (more stuff to shuffle around) and a million
>times slower...
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>>                         Specific reference, no, I didn't collect them, 
>>sorry, but alexander the befs driver guy knows more than I about this.
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>Furious handwaving doesn't make it true.
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Ok, go talk to the befs driver guy, and you'll find out he has already 
done work on it.

If his work does not satisfy you, sorry, I do detailed research just 
before coding, not to satisfy some guy on lkml.