[GENERAL] userspace fs implementation ? (perhaps with PostgreSQL)

1999-10-31 Thread Jan Vicherek
Hi, I would like to do a simple implementation of a userspace fs. In particular, it will be an archiver FS, which stores all metadata and contents of some files in an SQL database (PostgreSQL). I was wondering whether anybody has any suggestions as to which user fs out there for 2.2 kernel

[GENERAL] storing a tree-like structure and selecting path from leaf to root

1999-08-14 Thread Jan Vicherek
Hi, ( this msg has 2 questions ) I would like to create a db of all files (home + office + backups + friends_backups from floppies, tapes, CDs, etc), and would like to store it in pg. Now every row (a file or a directory) will have an node ID, name (filename / dirname) and a parent node ID,

Re: [GENERAL] space-effective varchar(255)-like arrangement

1998-12-26 Thread Jan Vicherek
, Jan On Sat, 26 Dec 1998, Jan Vicherek wrote: > On Sat, 26 Dec 1998, Bruce Momjian wrote: > > > > See the FAQ under character types. varcahr() does not store the max > > space, only used space. > >hmm, thus if one block has 8192 bytes, and if there is 9-b