Re: virtual filesystem atop a PostgreSQL database

On Tue, Sep 25, 2001 at 01:48:26PM -0700, Marshall Spight wrote:
> "Jan Pruner" <pruner(at)cekia(dot)cz> wrote in message
> news:0109251451420D(dot)01444(at)jpr(dot)(dot)(dot)
> > 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?
>
> Is the filesystem relational? Transactional?
>
> Filesystems ought to be more like databases. Note Oracle's IFS;
> it's very cool. If I had tens of thousands of dollars to burn, I'd
> sure be running Oracle. As it is, I use PostgreSQL, but I wish
> I had IFS.
>
> I think that's what the OP is talking about.

I was indeed.

/Frank