Re: MySQl db as filesystem.

2002-10-16 Thread Michael T. Babcock
Jan Steinman wrote: 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. FWIW, we use Pick database systems quite a

Re: MySQl db as filesystem.

2002-10-13 Thread David Garamond
Jan Steinman wrote: 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. isn't the next windows operating system (longhorn) supposed to have a new filesystem that's based on SQL Server? i

RE: MySQl db as filesystem.

2002-10-13 Thread Nicolas MONNET (Tech)
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?

RE: MySQl db as filesystem.

2002-10-13 Thread Ed Carp
-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

Re: MySQl db as filesystem.

2002-10-12 Thread Paul DuBois
At 15:46 +0200 10/11/02, Alex Polite wrote: On Thu, Oct 10, 2002 at 05:56:31PM -0500, Paul DuBois 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? What I want is a device that actually

Re: MySQl db as filesystem.

2002-10-12 Thread Christian Jaeger
At 12:58 Uhr +0200 10.10.2002, Alex Polite wrote: Is there any way I could display a MySQL database as a filesystem under Linux? We have created a virtual filesystem using MySQL as storage, using the LD_PRELOAD version of AVFS. The filesystem logic is written in Perl (embedded perl

Re: MySQl db as filesystem.

2002-10-12 Thread Alex Polite
On Thu, Oct 10, 2002 at 05:56:31PM -0500, Paul DuBois 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? What I want is a device that actually is an interface to a db table. I mount (read

Re: MySQl db as filesystem.

2002-10-12 Thread Anthony W. Marino
Pretty interesting stuff: http://www.osnews.com/story.php?news_id=836 http://newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=02/03/22/204220tid=9 Anthony Anthony W. Marino Pres./CTO, AWM Objects David Garamond wrote: Jan Steinman wrote: Today's modern operating systems really stopped evolving in the

Re: MySQl db as filesystem.

2002-10-12 Thread Jayce^
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Actually, I remember reading about a mysqlfs system, like that, cd to a table, ls for records.. rm to remove and such. that was over a year ago at least.. check sourceforge or google, I bet they'd be able to tell more. Archives might too.

Re: MySQl db as filesystem.

2002-10-12 Thread Joshua J . Kugler
There has been such a project for quite a while. Take a look at http://no.spam.ee/~tonu/ and find the link about SQLFS. j- k- On Thursday 10 October 2002 02:58, Alex Polite wrote: Is there any way I could display a MySQL database as a filesystem under Linux? alex -- Joshua

Re: MySQl db as filesystem.

2002-10-12 Thread Anthony W. Marino
Here's something: http://no.spam.ee/~tonu/modules.php?name=Newsnew_topic=2 Anthony Jayce^ wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Actually, I remember reading about a mysqlfs system, like that, cd to a table, ls for records.. rm to remove and such. that was over a year ago at

Re: MySQl db as filesystem.

2002-10-12 Thread Jan Steinman
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

Re: MySQl db as filesystem.

2002-10-11 Thread Joel Rees
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? To which, on Thu, 10 Oct 2002 at 17:56:31 -0500, Paul DuBois asked What does that mean? Should we guess that he wants to be able to log into a database with csh, run

RE: MySQl db as filesystem.

2002-10-11 Thread Nicolas MONNET (Tech)
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.

RE: MySQl db as filesystem.

2002-10-11 Thread Ed Carp
-Original Message- From: Paul DuBois [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, October 10, 2002 5:57 PM To: Alex Polite; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: MySQl db as filesystem. At 12:58 +0200 10/10/02, Alex Polite wrote: Is there any way I could display a MySQL database

Re: MySQl db as filesystem.

2002-10-11 Thread Paul DuBois
At 13:32 +0900 10/11/02, Joel Rees 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? To which, on Thu, 10 Oct 2002 at 17:56:31 -0500, Paul DuBois asked What does that mean? Should we guess that he wants to

Re: MySQl db as filesystem.

2002-10-11 Thread Michael T. Babcock
Joel Rees wrote: Should we guess that he wants to be able to log into a database with csh, run ls and get a list of tables, run cat on a table and get a tab-delimited listing of the contents of the table? On the surface it didn't seem like such an unreasonable question, ... The easiest way

Re: MySQl db as filesystem.

2002-10-10 Thread Paul DuBois
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? alex -- Alex Polite http://plusseven.com/gpg - Before posting, please check: