Re: virtual filesystem atop a PostgreSQL database

On Tue, Sep 25, 2001 at 02:45:37PM +0200, Jan Pruner wrote:
> Hmm, filesystem IS database.
> If you need SQL-like functionality to ask for something in your fs why do
> you want to mount db like fs?
> You can build a sql-like shell !?! EnhancedBASH?

I couldn't possibly explain it any better than Hans Reiser (BTW, he's
the author of ReiserFS, just in case that is not known) in

http://www.namesys.com/whitepaper.html

In particular, look at the section entitled 'The Little Inconveniences
Dominate What We Do'. To be sure, what I suggested is emphatically NOT
what Reiser is aiming for; it just adresses some of the issues he raises.

Regards, Frank