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Didn't BeOS have some awesome database-like file system indexing and query system?
by aardvark291 9y ago
Didn't BeOS have some awesome database-like file system indexing and query system?
- Koshkin 9y agoSure; in general, a file system endowed with extended/extensible attributes can be naturally seen as a relational database (in which the files themselves are BLOBs).
- nayuki 9y agoThis video talks in detail about the extended attributes in BeOS: https://systemswe.love/archive/minneapolis-2017/ivan-richwalski https://systemswe.love/archive/minneapolis-2017/ivan-richwal... - "Metadata Indexes & Queries in the BeOS Filesystem" https://player.vimeo.com/video/209021697 https://player.vimeo.com/video/209021697