From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S261619AbULNTav (ORCPT ); Tue, 14 Dec 2004 14:30:51 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S261624AbULNTav (ORCPT ); Tue, 14 Dec 2004 14:30:51 -0500 Received: from inti.inf.utfsm.cl ([200.1.21.155]:61140 "EHLO inti.inf.utfsm.cl") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S261619AbULNTak (ORCPT ); Tue, 14 Dec 2004 14:30:40 -0500 Message-Id: <200412141930.iBEJUGdB019336@laptop11.inf.utfsm.cl> To: Peter Foldiak cc: Hans Reiser , reiserfs-list@namesys.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: file as a directory In-Reply-To: Message from Peter Foldiak of "14 Dec 2004 16:58:38 -0000." <1103043518.21728.159.camel@pear.st-and.ac.uk> X-Mailer: MH-E 7.4.2; nmh 1.0.4; XEmacs 21.4 (patch 15) Date: Tue, 14 Dec 2004 16:30:16 -0300 From: Horst von Brand Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Peter Foldiak said: [...] > Perhaps a better way to think about this is that instead of talking > about directories and files, we just talk about objects. 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. -- Dr. Horst H. von Brand User #22616 counter.li.org Departamento de Informatica Fono: +56 32 654431 Universidad Tecnica Federico Santa Maria +56 32 654239 Casilla 110-V, Valparaiso, Chile Fax: +56 32 797513