Re: file as a directory

From: Horst von Brand (vonbrand_at_inf.utfsm.cl)
Date: 12/18/04

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    To: Hans Reiser <reiser@namesys.com>
Date:	Fri, 17 Dec 2004 22:52:09 -0300

    Hans Reiser <reiser@namesys.com> said:
    > David Masover wrote:
    > > Hans Reiser wrote:
    > > [...]
    > > | My solution is to tell Nate Diller that there is extensive literature on
    > > | it, that it isn't really the big problem it is made out to be, and leave
    > > | it to him to go read the literature and code it up after he finishes the
    > > | required tasks of our current darpa contract.;-)

    > > Can you point me to any such literature? I'm just curious.

    > Look in every field of cs except filesystems and kernels.;-)

    Right. Smart people are found elsewhere only.

    > Databases,
    > garbage collectors, etc.

    Everthing stuff that works on the assumption that what they are working on
    fits in RAM (or can overflow into swap space in a pinch), and that RAM is
    fast (and even so they are infuriatingly slow). And disks are usually a few
    thousand times larger than RAM (more stuff to shuffle around) and a million
    times slower...

    > Specific reference, no, I didn't collect them,
    > sorry, but alexander the befs driver guy knows more than I about this.

    Furious handwaving doesn't make it true. 

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