Re: [gobolinux-devel] Progress on a "spiritual" derivation of GoboLinux

2013-04-29 Thread Trans
On Mon, Apr 29, 2013 at 11:13 AM, Ben Francis wrote: > It seems you're running into the basic problem of an hierarchical > filesystem: information isn't relate-able as it is in a relational > database Notice how the structure of each directory repeats itself. To a > database guy, that screams "N

Re: [gobolinux-devel] Progress on a "spiritual" derivation of GoboLinux

2013-04-29 Thread Ben Francis
It seems you're running into the basic problem of an hierarchical filesystem: information isn't relate-able as it is in a relational database Notice how the structure of each directory repeats itself. To a database guy, that screams "Normalize Me", maybe by having a table called TopLevelDirectory