From: Jan Steinman Date: October 12 2002 3:16am Subject: Re: MySQl db as filesystem. List-Archive: http://lists.mysql.com/mysql/121998 Message-Id: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" >From: 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? There's a long (though obscure) history of using database-like engines as filesystems. There are considerable advantages, such as user-defined file metadata, journalling, simple to implement automatic version control, super-fast searching, etc, that would make this attractive to many folks. 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. 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. I agree that it would be interesting to slide MySQL under a filesystem, but it sounds like a lot of work! ---- SQL SQL SQL SQL SQL SQL SQL SQL SQL SQL SQL SQL SQL SQL SQL SQL ---- -- : Jan Steinman -- nature photography: : Bytesmiths -- artists' services: : Join the forums at