Archive of UserLand's first discussion group, started October 5, 1998.

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Re: It's just storage

Author:	Nicholas Riley
Posted:	5/17/1999; 10:08:46 PM
Topic:	Source release of Prefs.UserLand.Com
Msg #:	6391 (In response to 6336)
Prev/Next:	6390 / 6392

This really makes a lot of sense. An extreme example of this is something like procfs on Linux, where if you do 'cat /proc/cpuinfo' you can see information about the processor. Exposing a mini-version of the ODB as a filesystem could be low-overhead. Think of being able to treat a .root file as a directory tree! Complete integration into the OS.

I didn't go to the OS X File Systems talk at WWDC on Friday, but I'm sure it'd work the same way as Linux or FreeBSD. They mentioned getting smbfs up and running easily, which is encouraging.

--Nicholas

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