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Date: Wed, 15 Dec 2004 08:57:27 -0800
From: Hans Reiser <reiser@namesys.com>
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To: Horst von Brand <vonbrand@inf.utfsm.cl>
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Subject: Re: file as a directory
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Horst von Brand wrote:

>Hans Reiser <reiser@namesys.com> said:
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>>Horst von Brand wrote:
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>>>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.
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>Right.  But you need to know where you are going, and why.
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>>Actually, databases are the wrong solution because they are relational, 
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>Says who?
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Read the

www.namesys.com/future_vision.html

paper for why relational is the wrong model.

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>>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
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