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I need a filesystem that does some database things. We got teased with that with WinFS and Beos's BFS, but it seems the football always gets yanked away, and t
by chuckadams 6mo ago
I need a filesystem that does some database things. We got teased with that with WinFS and Beos's BFS, but it seems the football always gets yanked away, and the mainstream of filesystems always reverts back to the APIs established in the 1980s.
- tracker1 6mo agoFWIW, you can do some things like this on top of S3 Metadata.
- chuckadams 6mo agoTransactions are one thing I want the most, and that's not going to happen on S3. Sure, I can reinvent them by hand, but the point is I want that baked in.
- tracker1 6mo agoYeah, closest thing there is MS-SQL FILESTREAM, but even that has flaws and severe limitations... you can do similar transaction implemenations for binary data storage in any given RDBMS, or do similarly via behavior to read/write to filestream along with a transactional row lock that corresponds to the underlying data. But that gets its' own complexities.