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Simon St.Laurent writes: > "The filesystem is a database, but it has always been unsuitable as the > computer's primary one. Programmers have to write specialized programs > to get the functionality they need. Now, new advances in software like > Plan 9, the Reiser 4 filesystem and Linux are making the improvements > the filesystem needs to become viable. Plan 9 is using the filesystem > as the integral system interface, and the Reiser filesystem is unifying > pointlessly different but equivalent namespaces. For operating systems > to improve for users (that always includes programmers), they need to > incorporate these new ideas." Personally, I use Reiser because it will fit multiple small files into a single block; when working with GIS data, I can save over 10GB of disk space simply over Ext[23]. We won't even start talking about FAT32 with small files ... > Cool stuff, well worth thinking about, even though it isn't directly > XML. Not directly, but there's some obvious convergence. All the best, David -- David Megginson, david@m..., http://www.megginson.com/
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