Linked by Marcus Carlson on Wed 21st Jul 2004 18:17 UTC
In these days there has been much fuzzing about the new browsing with files organizing themselves with the help of meta data. Maybe you ask yourself "What have this to do with the spatial browsing in gnome and how can it improve the browsing?". That's what I did. As I see it, the gnome people have introduced the spatial browsing so we are used to it when this new browsing is coming to town. This is very intelligent move of the gnome people and will help us adopt faster to this. This is when the spatial browsing is really making sense. I hope you see this when you've read this article.
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I read the article, and the solution *could* be this: a small root using a traditional file system just to get the system up and running, then from there we mount a file system which the whole system resides.
Use something like Firebird SQL where by the whole database resides on a raw partition, that is, it is one big file located on a partition without any filesystem; you can do similar with Oracle meaning you get the raw speed without the file system overhead, and better yet, Linux already supports raw partitions.
You will get all the perks of a database without the nasty overhead of having layers of crap building up.