Re: OT Re: 'database filesystems'

2007-01-18 Thread Daniel Ouellet
bofh wrote: Hmm, there's been recent noise about opensolaris being licensed under gpl v3. I'm curious if gpl v3 is "compatible" with the bsd license? Stop. GPL != BSD Regardless of the version! Please do not start a flame war PLEASE! Best, Daniel

Re: OT Re: 'database filesystems'

2007-01-18 Thread bofh
On 1/11/07, Stuart Henderson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On 2007/01/10 20:45, bofh wrote: > However, it won't be easy porting it. It's been out in opensolaris > for over a year+, but only showed up in solaris 10 6/06. However the > linux folks have to do it through fuse that's because it's not

Re: OT Re: 'database filesystems'

2007-01-11 Thread Stuart Henderson
On 2007/01/10 20:45, bofh wrote: > However, it won't be easy porting it. It's been out in opensolaris > for over a year+, but only showed up in solaris 10 6/06. However the > linux folks have to do it through fuse that's because it's not compatible with their license (use it and you can't make

Re: OT Re: 'database filesystems'

2007-01-10 Thread Pedro Martelletto
On Wed, Jan 10, 2007 at 10:23:31PM +0100, chefren wrote: > A few people mail things like "submit a patch" but those simple minds > don't understand that there is nothing to patch here. those are usually the minds that make openbsd possible anyway, i will shut up and wait for the day you have cod

Re: OT Re: 'database filesystems'

2007-01-10 Thread bofh
On 1/10/07, Michael Jensen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On 1/10/07, chefren <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > As far as I see it we have to design something beyond FFS before it's > possible to start coding at all. Anyways, where would you conduct this design and thinking. I'm curious, taking away som

Re: OT Re: 'database filesystems'

2007-01-10 Thread Michael Jensen
On 1/10/07, chefren <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On 01/10/07 22:00, Nick Guenther wrote: > I'm interested in this topic too, but I know that misc@ is not the > place for it. How do you know? I can see lot's of people are interested in it. > Anyway, if you want to play with different filesystems

Re: OT Re: 'database filesystems'

2007-01-10 Thread chefren
On 01/10/07 22:00, Nick Guenther wrote: I'm interested in this topic too, but I know that misc@ is not the place for it. How do you know? I can see lot's of people are interested in it. > Anyway, if you want to play with different filesystems go to linux. I'm not interested in Linux and I

Re: OT Re: 'database filesystems'

2007-01-10 Thread Nick Guenther
On 1/10/07, chefren <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On 01/10/07 01:21, Mathieu Sauve-Frankel wrote: > Could you guys please take this completely useless discussion off-list ? > It has absolutely zero value to anyone running or developing OpenBSD. Ah, it's clueless to try to think beond FFS and aim a

Re: OT Re: 'database filesystems'

2007-01-10 Thread chefren
On 01/10/07 01:21, Mathieu Sauve-Frankel wrote: Could you guys please take this completely useless discussion off-list ? It has absolutely zero value to anyone running or developing OpenBSD. Ah, it's clueless to try to think beond FFS and aim a little higher? +++chefren

Re: OT Re: 'database filesystems'

2007-01-10 Thread Richard P. Welty
Brian Candler wrote: Well, maybe there is something useful that can be salvaged :-) maybe, maybe not. (3) Further to the above: some form of shared filesystem where the remote copy can be mounted read-write and changes propagate both ways. This can land you into problems when conflicting off-

Re: OT Re: 'database filesystems'

2007-01-10 Thread Pedro Martelletto
On Wed, Jan 10, 2007 at 02:47:16PM +, Brian Candler wrote: > On Wed, Jan 10, 2007 at 09:21:45AM +0900, Mathieu Sauve-Frankel wrote: > > Could you guys please take this completely useless discussion off-list ? > > It has absolutely zero value to anyone running or developing OpenBSD. > > Well, m

Re: OT Re: 'database filesystems'

2007-01-10 Thread Brian Candler
On Wed, Jan 10, 2007 at 09:21:45AM +0900, Mathieu Sauve-Frankel wrote: > Could you guys please take this completely useless discussion off-list ? > It has absolutely zero value to anyone running or developing OpenBSD. Well, maybe there is something useful that can be salvaged :-) I think the issu

Re: OT Re: 'database filesystems'

2007-01-09 Thread Mathieu Sauve-Frankel
Could you guys please take this completely useless discussion off-list ? It has absolutely zero value to anyone running or developing OpenBSD. -- Mathieu Sauve-Frankel

Re: OT Re: 'database filesystems'

2007-01-09 Thread chefren
On 1/9/07 10:17 PM, Tony Abernethy wrote: chefren wrote: On 1/9/07 1:22 PM, Richard P. Welty wrote: .. yes, it seems to me that the author of this proposal doesn't really understand the huge gap between a conventional file system and a full up RDBMS. I do. You don't. I do. How do you h

Re: OT Re: 'database filesystems'

2007-01-09 Thread Tony Abernethy
chefren wrote: > > On 1/9/07 1:22 PM, Richard P. Welty wrote: > > .. > > > yes, it seems to me that the author of this proposal doesn't really > > understand the huge gap between a conventional file system and > > a full up RDBMS. > > I do. > You don't. How do you handle physical defects in the sto

Re: OT Re: 'database filesystems'

2007-01-09 Thread chefren
On 1/9/07 1:22 PM, Richard P. Welty wrote: .. yes, it seems to me that the author of this proposal doesn't really understand the huge gap between a conventional file system and a full up RDBMS. I do. let file systems be good file systems, and let the RDBMS or OO DBMS be a good DBMS. Then

Re: OT Re: 'database filesystems'

2007-01-09 Thread Richard P. Welty
Brian Candler wrote: On Mon, Jan 08, 2007 at 10:14:12PM +0100, chefren wrote: I want to eliminate the need for Oracle or whatever other databases... Then IMO you have impossible conflicting goals: - something which is small and fast (as it is to be an integral part of the O/S) - somet

Re: OT Re: 'database filesystems'

2007-01-09 Thread Brian Candler
On Mon, Jan 08, 2007 at 10:14:12PM +0100, chefren wrote: > >Firstly, it eliminates the choice that we currently have: say mysql versus > >Oracle versus BerkeleyDB versus pgsql etc. > > And why do you forget the single OpenBSD choice named: FFS? Well, it's not the only one, although probably the b

Re: OT Re: 'database filesystems'

2007-01-08 Thread Lars Hansson
On Tuesday 09 January 2007 05:14, chefren wrote: > On 1/8/07 4:27 PM, Brian Candler wrote: > > On Mon, Jan 08, 2007 at 01:07:38PM +0100, chefren wrote: > > > > > > Are you saying that the O/S and filesystem layer should entirely > > *replace* the need for a database? > > Yes. Is this going to be a

Re: OT Re: 'database filesystems'

2007-01-08 Thread Tony Abernethy
chefren wrote > To get it started we should add some hooks of course, and when it's > working FFS should be dumped. Of course the database file system can > still save "blobs", being Oracle database or whatever. > How do you use this elegant filesystem to bootstrap the OS which handles this ele

Re: OT Re: 'database filesystems'

2007-01-08 Thread chefren
On 1/8/07 4:27 PM, Brian Candler wrote: On Mon, Jan 08, 2007 at 01:07:38PM +0100, chefren wrote: Are you saying that the O/S and filesystem layer should entirely *replace* the need for a database? Yes. If so, I can't believe that will ever happen. Firstly, it eliminates the choice that w

Re: OT Re: 'database filesystems'

2007-01-08 Thread Brian Candler
On Mon, Jan 08, 2007 at 01:07:38PM +0100, chefren wrote: > >(1) You won't see any benefit until *all* applications have been rewritten > >to use these new semantics instead of traditional ones. That means new > >versions of oracle, mysql etc. > > Yes and no, the database filesystem should have an