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  • Sounds like a submission for slashback. I'll let you have the honor.
    • Sounds like a submission for slashback.

      I'll probably try submitting one after I get the second part of the series out. As for the second part, I'm going to attempt to accelerate the "once per week" schedule that I've been keeping. Just this once. ;-)
  • but it no like my HTML

    A DBFS is not an SQL Server!
    The shapes of the data differ drastically between a DBFS and an RDBMS.
    DBFS ==tree
    RDBMS==arbitrary 2D tuples
    There is a huge impedence mis-match between the two. Not that you can't code around it.
    See Celko [amazon.com]

    Installation != Ease of Use
    "Flexibility is the key to indecision"
    It's an iceberg. Even the most advanced users want to manage things in a declarative fashion, and leave the messy imperative detail below the waterline.
    In a proprietary OS, that
    • Hi Smitty!

      I'm surprised that you weren't able to post over there. The comments allows for most basic HTML. Where you trying to do anything odd?

      The shapes of the data differ drastically between a DBFS and an RDBMS.
      DBFS ==tree
      RDBMS==arbitrary 2D tuples

      That's not true in the case I've presented. The file system model I suggested in the articles used table-like structures instead of INode structures. There is nothing inherently heirarchical about this, thus the heirarchy must be simulated to provide the ty
      • I had written up the reply using <br>, and blogspot doesn't like it.

        The file system model I suggested in the articles used table-like structures instead of INode structures.

        IIUC, Reiser4's metadata will support that kind of approach. IANAKH (Kernel Hacker or Kroah-Hartman), but seriously pursuing a non-Inode hierarchical affair is going to take you into major kernel patching territory, if I got anything out of Love's book.

        I'm not quite sure what you're getting at here.

        My (admittedly poorly c

        • I had written up the reply using
          , and blogspot doesn't like it.

          s/<br>/\n/g

          Blogspot handles whitespace automatically. Although its handling of &lt; and &gt; can be a bit annoying. (They're automatically converted back to the original characters during preview.)

          seriously pursuing a non-Inode hierarchical affair is going to take you into major kernel patching territory, if I got anything out of Love's book.

          I've been into the kernel quite a bit as of late, and I don't think it's an issu

  • you might find libferris [sourceforge.net] very interesting, it absracts and indexes the underlying filesystem in a userspace pseudo-filesystem and would probably do most of what I think you're talking about in a dbfs right now, for example I envision an anti-virus, spyware, intrution scanner that would be able to easily scan the file system based on criteria such as
    1. file changed since last scan,
    2. infection most commonly found in the wild,
    3. vulerabilites discover, but not yet patched,
    4. seriousness of known exploits
    5. ev

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