"Ryan Stewart" <zaphod_at_no.texas.spam.net> wrote in message news:<EKednXiwWOlJeGCiU-KYlg_at_texas.net>...
> "bigbinc" <bigbinc_at_hotmail.com> wrote in message
> news:d1b33313.0401081514.22b13c31_at_posting.google.com...
> > Michael Borgwardt <brazil_at_brazils-animeland.de> wrote in message
> news:<btk8td$84qki$1_at_ID-161931.news.uni-berlin.de>...
> > > bigbinc wrote:
> > >
> > > > This is cool stuff,
> > >
> > > "Really idiotic" is the expression I'd use.
> >
> > You are kidding me right, A filesystem is basically a database full
> > of file nodes.
> >
> > If you are dealing in a one OS, one machine fine, standard file access
> > is great. If you are dealing with heterogenous networks, where NFS
> > is not available, then a Databased filesystem may in fact be the only
> > way to go.
> >
> > See oracle internet filesystem.
> >
> > http://otn.oracle.com/documentation/ifs_arch.html
> >
> > Plus the fact, where is your data and performance stats, as you very
> > well know to say an approach in the computer industry is completely
> > idiotic, is idiotic.
>
> I think what he was referring to was the idea of breaking the files into
> tiny chunks. Essentially, that would be purposely fragmenting the database.
> And with a maximum fragment size of 4k, that would be really bad.
of course, sorry.
Received on Thu Jan 08 2004 - 22:01:31 CST
