From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Matthew Wilcox Subject: Re: Question regarding to store file system metadata in database Date: Sun, 19 Mar 2006 16:44:04 -0700 Message-ID: <20060319234404.GD8980@parisc-linux.org> References: <4ae3c140603182048k55d06d87ufc0b9f0548574090@mail.gmail.com> <1142809585.14592.2.camel@localhost.localdomain> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Cc: Xin Zhao , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org Return-path: Received: from palinux.external.hp.com ([192.25.206.14]:18373 "EHLO palinux.hppa") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1750925AbWCSXoF (ORCPT ); Sun, 19 Mar 2006 18:44:05 -0500 To: Alan Cox Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <1142809585.14592.2.camel@localhost.localdomain> Sender: linux-fsdevel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-fsdevel.vger.kernel.org On Sun, Mar 19, 2006 at 11:06:25PM +0000, Alan Cox wrote: > The one well known example of a database as file system (or was well > known) was the Pick OS (now defunct although the database system lives > on). They did manage to build an OS which had a database as a file > system. The other well-known example would be OS/400 (or whatever IBM renamed it to now)