Linked by Mo Mckinlay on Fri 31st Oct 2003 17:35 UTC
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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> > 2. How will I restore these kinds of backups? Will I be able to
> > restore this data on my other computers? What if my other
> > computers are running OS X or BSD or Linux?
> Being NTFS, actual files will still be readable under linux with the
> exisiting NTFS driver. The database meta-data and relationships will
> not be accessible and some of the files might be hard to find since
> they may not be stored in hierachical folders and may have filenames
> generated at random. eg GUIDs
This suggests that files are still stored in NTFS and that there is a separate DB store with the metadata. Do you have a reference to a description of this scheme? I understood that files were stored in the DB store as BLOBs and that the DB store was going to be one or more files in NTFS. But I could be wrong, and I don't have access to a Longhorn system.