Re: file as a directory

[David Masover <ninja@slaphack.com>]

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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.

Really? Because most Unix tools don't behave all that strangely when I
enable metadata. If Linux incrementally changes into something that is
not Unix, what is lost, besides the name?

Remember that a filesystem is a specialized database. It is specialized
for performance. If Hans can generalize it without losing that
performance, who can complain?
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