Yes - but if you grab in 1K blobs, SQL is specifically designed for remote access and the ability to support multiple access and updates on the data. Yes - there is a performance hit, but--- Microsoft and Oracle both support native realtime db replication and with some create effort, you could make regionalised mail stores with replicated LDAP auth-services. Throw some Alteon switches in and you can make extremely robust system that would not be down for any reason short of global thermo nuclear exchange.
Duane. -----Original Message----- From: Dan Melomedman [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Friday, February 15, 2002 10:39 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: NFS? > My thoughts - How about a database based file system that is operated using > queries like sql. Microshaft has started development on something like > this, but it will be some time before it's available. I had tried this This is still very dangerous in my opinion. Locking should be done in hardware. Just look at the the problems with locking in NFS. And if somebody comes up with a transaction-based FS, it's not going to use SQL because SQL is ugly. BTW ReiserFS project has transactions in mind to implement in future. --
