Re: [Gnu-arch-users] file system interface to a database

[Aldrik KLEBER]

Le Lundi 09 Janvier 2006 20:57, Alfred M. Szmidt a écrit :

> I disagree, strongly.  TLA should not even have a notion of a backend.
> It should only need a notion of `file-system operations'.  Then if you
> want to use SQL as your file-system, you simply mount it.  Solutions
> like these are very short sighted.
>
Perhaps backend is not the good word to designate what I'm thinking.
Actually, tla is aware of how data are stored, archives implementation use 
directly the notion of file and directory.
What I suggest is to have a layer in order that tla code don't need to know 
how data is stored.

The fact that tla can be independant of how data is stored is in my view can 
be an improvement.

What can bring this model, a good preparation to implement other way to store 
data, that can improve for example windows compatibility.

the actual model is working well, so we mustn't remove what is working well. 
Just give the oportunity for windows user to have a possibility to use tla 
more easily. 

Windows is not fully posix compatible, so the solution of a SQL file system 
that can be mounted isn't adapted.

For the corruption, db engine are designed not to corrupt the data even if the 
software crash during a writing operation.
I don't say that a corruption of a database never happen, but this is not a 
very common situation.

the goal is to give more flexibility to tla, not to change his way of working.

-- 
Cordialement,

Aldrik

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