Re: [GENERAL] virtual filesystem atop a PostgreSQL database

2001-09-28 Thread Frank Joerdens
On Tue, Sep 25, 2001 at 01:48:26PM -0700, Marshall Spight wrote: > "Jan Pruner" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message > 0109251451420D.01444@jpr">news:0109251451420D.01444@jpr... > > Hmm, filesystem IS database. > > If you need SQL-like functionality to ask for something in your fs why do > > you

Re: [GENERAL] virtual filesystem atop a PostgreSQL database

2001-09-25 Thread Frank Joerdens
On Tue, Sep 25, 2001 at 02:45:37PM +0200, Jan Pruner wrote: > Hmm, filesystem IS database. > If you need SQL-like functionality to ask for something in your fs why do > you want to mount db like fs? > You can build a sql-like shell !?! EnhancedBASH? I couldn't possibly explain it any better th

Re: [GENERAL] virtual filesystem atop a PostgreSQL database

2001-09-25 Thread Thomas Lockhart
> I am wondering whether anyone has already tried it, or if not, looking > for starting points as to how to go about doing it: I recall seeing an article in a magazine a couple of years ago by someone using PostgreSQL to implement a versioning file system on Linux. I *think* it was in Linux Journ

Fwd: Re: [GENERAL] virtual filesystem atop a PostgreSQL database

2001-09-25 Thread Jan Pruner
Hmm, filesystem IS database. If you need SQL-like functionality to ask for something in your fs why do you want to mount db like fs? You can build a sql-like shell !?! EnhancedBASH? JP On Tue 25. September 2001 14:22, you wrote: > I am wondering whether anyone has already tried it, or if not,

[GENERAL] virtual filesystem atop a PostgreSQL database

2001-09-25 Thread Frank Joerdens
I am wondering whether anyone has already tried it, or if not, looking for starting points as to how to go about doing it: The idea would be to have some kind of tree implementation (e.g. pointers or nested sets) for an SQL database and then to write a Linux driver that would make it possible to