Re: [GENERAL] MySQL file system

2001-01-17 Thread Adam Lang
eral" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Wednesday, January 17, 2001 12:23 PM Subject: Re: [GENERAL] MySQL file system > * Robert D. Nelson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [010117 05:17] wrote: > > >Raw disk access allows: > > > > If I'm correct, mysql is providing a filesyst

Re: [GENERAL] MySQL file system

2001-01-17 Thread Alfred Perlstein
* Robert D. Nelson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [010117 05:17] wrote: > >Raw disk access allows: > > If I'm correct, mysql is providing a filesystem, not a way to access raw > disk, like Oracle does. Huge difference there - with a filesystem, you have > overhead of FS *and* SQL at the same time. Oh, so

Re: [GENERAL] MySQL file system

2001-01-17 Thread Prasanth Kumar
> >Then I realized that although I had the disk space for the total file > >size, they were mostly smaller than a block on my disk, so I was going > >to loose alot of space. > > The solution to this is sub-allocation, which Novell has achieved. NOT a DB > filesystem. > > >It's not earth shatterin

Re: [GENERAL] MySQL file system

2001-01-16 Thread Brett W. McCoy
On Tue, 16 Jan 2001, Ned Lilly wrote: > Anyone heard about this? > > http://no.spam.ee/~tonu/mysqlfs.html That only confirms the criticisms that some have leveled at MySQL of being an SQL interface to a filesystem and not a true relational database management system. -- Brett

Re: [GENERAL] MySQL file system

2001-01-16 Thread Karl DeBisschop
Ned Lilly wrote: > > Anyone heard about this? > > http://no.spam.ee/~tonu/mysqlfs.html I was bout to copy about 3000 RFCs onto my hard drive last night. Bowsing them online was just too painfully slow. Then I realized that although I had the disk space for the total file size, they were mostly

Re: [GENERAL] MySQL file system

2001-01-16 Thread Ned Lilly
more on slashdot: http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=01/01/16/1855253&mode=nested Alex Pilosov wrote: > Hehe, very amusing. (albeit vaporware for now) > > I guess they want to it with KOrbit, and some software translating > cobra->mysql (mysql doesn't have corba bindings yet, to my knowledge)

Re: [GENERAL] MySQL file system

2001-01-16 Thread Alex Pilosov
Hehe, very amusing. (albeit vaporware for now) I guess they want to it with KOrbit, and some software translating cobra->mysql (mysql doesn't have corba bindings yet, to my knowledge). The same should be possible with postgres, and it actually DOES have corba bindings (albeit they are broken AFA

Re: [GENERAL] MySQL file system

2001-01-16 Thread Dominic J. Eidson
On Tue, 16 Jan 2001, Ned Lilly wrote: > http://no.spam.ee/~tonu/mysqlfs.html Can I puke now? Please. -- Dominic J. Eidson "Baruk Khazad! Khazad ai-menu!" - Gimli --- http://www.t

[GENERAL] MySQL file system

2001-01-16 Thread Ned Lilly
Anyone heard about this? http://no.spam.ee/~tonu/mysqlfs.html -- Ned Lilly e: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Vice Presidentw: www.greatbridge.com Evangelism / Hacker Relationsv: 757.233.5523 Great Bridge, LLC