Re: 'Theoretical' DB OS

"David Portas" <REMOVE_BEFORE_REPLYING_dportas_at_acm.org> wrote in message news:1174762368.128260.39630_at_l77g2000hsb.googlegroups.com...
> 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.
>

To the OP,

You might want to look into the IBM AS400, starting with the Wikipedia article. Received on Sat Mar 24 2007 - 14:31:34 CDT