> -----Original Message----- > From: Nicolas MONNET (Tech) [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Friday, October 11, 2002 5:53 AM > To: Ed Carp > Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: RE: MySQl db as filesystem. > > On Fri, 2002-10-11 at 10:06, Ed Carp wrote: > > > > 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? > > > > I think he wants to mount a MySQL database as a filesystem, like CFS with the >loopback driver. The answer is almost > certainly no - > > why would you want to do such a thing? > > > > sql, query > > 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". --------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
