Re: virtual filesystem atop a PostgreSQL database

From: Frank Joerdens <frank(at)joerdens(dot)de>
To: thomas(at)pgsql(dot)com
Cc: pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: virtual filesystem atop a PostgreSQL database
Date: 2001-09-25 13:46:58
Message-ID: 20010925154658.B7366@rakete.joerdens.de
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On Tue, Sep 25, 2001 at 01:29:58PM +0000, Thomas Lockhart wrote:
> > I am wondering whether anyone has already tried it, or if not, looking
> > for starting points as to how to go about doing it:
>
> I recall seeing an article in a magazine a couple of years ago by
> someone using PostgreSQL to implement a versioning file system on Linux.
> I *think* it was in Linux Journal.

Yep. Found it. It looks more or less like what I was suggesting.

http://www2.linuxjournal.com/lj-issues/issue42/1383.html

Unfortunately, the link to the sources is defunct. Does anyone still
have a copy of Pgfs (which is what the author, Brian Bartholomew, called
it)? I am going to write to the author as well.

Cheers, Frank

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