>From: Paul DuBois <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > >At 12:58 +0200 10/10/02, Alex Polite wrote: >>Is there any way I could display a MySQL database as a filesystem >>under Linux? > >What does that mean?
There's a long (though obscure) history of using database-like engines as filesystems. There are considerable advantages, such as user-defined file metadata, journalling, simple to implement automatic version control, super-fast searching, etc, that would make this attractive to many folks. I believe the Pick operating system from the 70's had a database filesystem, for example. It was popular among business types. As I recall, it also had a BASIC command interpreter as its primary way of interacting with the system. Today's "modern" operating systems really stopped evolving in the 80's. Many ideas like database filesystems never really got a chance to show their utility. I agree that it would be interesting to slide MySQL under a filesystem, but it sounds like a lot of work! ---- SQL SQL SQL SQL SQL SQL SQL SQL SQL SQL SQL SQL SQL SQL SQL SQL ---- -- : Jan Steinman -- nature photography: <http://www.Bytesmiths.com> : Bytesmiths -- artists' services: <http://www.Bytesmiths.com/Services> : Join the forums at <http://www.Bytesmiths.com/wiki> --------------------------------------------------------------------- Before posting, please check: http://www.mysql.com/manual.php (the manual) http://lists.mysql.com/ (the list archive) To request this thread, e-mail <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To unsubscribe, e-mail <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Trouble unsubscribing? Try: http://lists.mysql.com/php/unsubscribe.php
