Star WinFS Vs GNOME Storage? Can you Say OS/400?
Linked by Mo Mckinlay on Fri 31st Oct 2003 17:35 UTC
OSNews, Generic OSes There's been much discussion over the past few months about the marriage of databases and filesystems - with Microsoft's Longhorn reportedly sporting the Yukon integrated SQL Server, and GNOME Storage in heaty debate, if not development, there's been lots to talk about.
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Reiser4
by tanstaafl on Fri 31st Oct 2003 22:51 UTC

Hans Reiser has a *lot* to say about the subject of filesystems and databases. Take a look at http://namesys.com/whitepaper.html for several of his (very verbose) ideas. Look especially for the section at the end titled "Storage Layers Above the FS: A Sure Symptom The FS Developer Has Failed".

Now, Hans still has to prove he's right, which is something I think is very evident in his own writings on the Namesys website, but he may be quite right in the end. I'm really excited about Reiser4, and I think a lot of the thought Hans et al. have put into it is often ignored when people on this sight discuss databases and filesystems.