SQL file systems

[David Nicol]

On Tue, Sep 23, 2008 at 6:06 PM, Billy Crook <billycrook at gmail.com> wrote:

> That said, if you need a sql driven filesystem, try fuse-mysqls:
> http://sourceforge.net/projects/mysqlfs/
> http://www.linux.com/feature/127055?theme=print
>
> Storing its data in mysql, you can use mysql's native high
> availability clustering to keep multiple instances on multiple
> machines in sync, at all times, without scripts, inotify, or a SAN.
> Just don't count on any degree of performance.

with SQLite being PD and modular, with the SQL layer cleanly
abstracted from the storage, it seems like using its storage for a FS
would be worthwhile for someone without anything bettter to do.  And
the FTS3 searchable indexing system; that in a file system would let
you have a distro-specific grep that screamed, for instance.  What was
reiser4 supposed to deliver?  If the future of file systems is
blurring of file systems or databases, it seems like sloshing code in
both directions is a SMOP.