From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S964915AbWFNN3N (ORCPT ); Wed, 14 Jun 2006 09:29:13 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S964916AbWFNN3N (ORCPT ); Wed, 14 Jun 2006 09:29:13 -0400 Received: from 8.ctyme.com ([69.50.231.8]:25788 "EHLO darwin.ctyme.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S964915AbWFNN3M (ORCPT ); Wed, 14 Jun 2006 09:29:12 -0400 Message-ID: <44900F27.7010103@perkel.com> Date: Wed, 14 Jun 2006 06:29:11 -0700 From: Marc Perkel User-Agent: Thunderbird 1.5.0.4 (Windows/20060516) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: Visionary ideas for SQL file systems References: <448F8F18.4030200@perkel.com> <448FFCAD.8010205@mail.ru> In-Reply-To: <448FFCAD.8010205@mail.ru> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Michael Raskin wrote: > Marc Perkel wrote: >> I'm going to throw this idea out there just to get people thinking. >> There's nothing in reality that is like this except maybe some of the >> ReiserFS ideas, but I want to take the idea farther. the idea is ...... >> >> Why not put an SQL filesystem directly on a block devices where files >> are really blobs within the filesystem and file names and file >> attributes are all indexed data withing the SQL database. The >> operating system will have SQL built in. > Maybe it is better done by fuse? So, did you consider contributing to > RelFS or something like it? Try FUSE.sf.net to find out the present > fs-in-usermode projects. > That certianly looks like a good tool to start experimenting with.