Re: MySQL file system

Karl DeBisschop wrote:
>
> Ned Lilly wrote:
> >
> > Anyone heard about this?
> >
> > http://no.spam.ee/~tonu/mysqlfs.html
>
> I was bout to copy about 3000 RFCs onto my hard drive last night.
> Bowsing them online was just too painfully slow.
>
> Then I realized that although I had the disk space for the total file
> size, they were mostly smaller than a block on my disk, so I was going
> to loose alot of space.
>
> My first thought was, well postgress would stor that as one file - that
> might work. Then I thought "I'm trying to be FAST here -- any time spent
> on this is a distraction. Too bad there is no such thing as
> PostgreSQL/FS"
>

So what is needed it to be able to mount a .zip or a .tar file as a file
system with the loopback device. Mounting a database on the filesystem
sounds pretty useless to me.

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