[olug] Hans Reiser

[Cesar Delgado]

> SQL-based stuff --- wasn't that supposed to be apart of WinFS ?

Ever heard of libferris?

http://www.linuxjournal.com/article/8901

You can have a database as a filesystem.  I haven't had time to play
with it big it sounds kinda cool.  Why I wouln't do it.  Context
switching.  There's a good article online that descibes why you don't
want to hold images in a database.  I think you can extend it to any
"large file".

http://mysqldump.azundris.com/archives/36-Serving-Images-From-A-Database.html

> And -- if ya want that -- I have a copy of BeOS 5 professional layin around
> somewhere :)
> 
> -Will
> 
> 
> On 10/13/06, Mario Steele <nixmario at ruby-im.net> wrote:
>> On 10/12/06, Will Langford <unfies at gmail.com> wrote:
>>> Wonder if there's any commercial NT implementations of a file system
>> that
>>> can do
>>> similar.  I recall NTFS broke the 2GB barrier a while back, but I can't
>>> recall what it's cap is...
>>>
>>> -Will
>>
>>
>>
>> As this comparison chart of NTFSv5 to NTFS/FAT32/FAT16/FAT12 shows (
>> http://www.ntfs.com/ntfs_vs_fat.htm), NTFS right now supports 2TB
>> Partition
>> sizes (Think that might have been what you was thinking when you said
>> 2GB).
>> As far as I can tell, there's nothing yet in effect for a newer version of
>> NTFS at this time, and do belive that Longhorn and Vista will still be
>> using
>> NTFSv5 as it's base partition format.
>>
>> I've seen talk about there being a NTFSv6, where instead of using
>> Journalizing storage records, that it'll be converting to a SQL Type
>> storage
>> system, for managing entry records.  But since I've not heard anything
>> like
>> this from official channels, I take it with a grain of salt, like with
>> most
>> things that come from Microsoft's own mouth.
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