On Fri, 2002-10-11 at 17:07, Ed Carp wrote: > > Should'nt be too hard to do thanks to PODFUK® AKA uservfs: > > Just goes to show you that Linux is so flexible, any hare-brained idea can be >implemented in software <sigh>. But you didn't answer > my question - why would you want to do such a thing? How could it possibly be >useful? Adding yet another layer of complexity to > ext2fs (or ext3fs, which makes even less sense) is insane, unless you're doing it >just to say you can (same goes for the idiotic > idea of building an interface into MySQL to produce XML output), or for a *very* >specialized application. But, as Jeff Goldblum > said in the movie "Independence Day", (paraphrase) "Just because you can doesn't >mean you should".
A good reason to do it would be for example to be able to use preexisting file-based tools on the database. --------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
