| From: | "J(dot)H(dot)M(dot) Dassen (Ray)" <jdassen(at)cistron-office(dot)nl> |
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| To: | PostgreSQL General <pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org> |
| Subject: | Re: MySQL file system |
| Date: | 2001-01-17 08:23:21 |
| Message-ID: | 20010117092321.B2777@cistron-office.nl |
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On Tue, Jan 16, 2001 at 22:21:19 -0500, Joseph Shraibman wrote:
> So what is needed it to be able to mount a .zip or a .tar file as a file
> system with the loopback device.
For Linux, there used to be a "userfs" that allowed this kind of thing.
AFAIK development stopped quite some time ago, as there were numerous
problems with deadlocks.
> Mounting a database on the filesystem sounds pretty useless to me.
Depends on the database, I guess. There is a succesful configuration
management system that uses a database as its backend and exports
trees/branches/versions via NFS. This combines the ease of use of a
filesystem (rather than "projects" in some IDE) with the reliability
(transactions) provided by a DBMS.
Ray
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"Never trust a poll you haven't rigged yourself."
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