David Portas wrote:
> On 24 Mar, 02:34, christianlo..._at_yahoo.com wrote:
>
>>I'm working on a conceptual model (ie 'thinking about' / 'air code')
>>to implement a small operating system (extensible of course) that is
>>built completely out of a common set of database functions.
>>
>>The specific question I have now is an important one - how should I
>>store files?
>>
>>Heh. It's theory about what is the best physical implementation. ;)
>>
>>My first guess is that each attribute gets it's own file. Should I
>>make it where the user can select whether he wants it to be stored
>>fixed width or delimited?
>
> Why do you want the database to be part of a file system at all? If
> the database was not exposed to the file system then the security,
> storage management and physical data integrity could be controlled
> exclusively by the DBMS. Possibly that approach has some advantages.
David, I think he wants the dbms to be the file system.
Received on Sat Mar 24 2007 - 14:09:06 CDT
