Lately, I came to put a version of Microsoft Vista on my desktop. As
I am accustomed to with Microsoft OS's, I am bracing for the impact of
how much extra RAM will be consumed when adopting a new generation of
OS to make it function prperly. For Vista, I found out it is a
nightmare! To make the usual applications I use (mainly
administration tools), no less than 4Gb of RAM are required to avoid
the screen *hanging on*/reeze effect one gets when openning several
applications simultaneously. As a result I went back to XP Pro more
and more despaired by the utter unefficiency of current OS and
Environments. Convinced that a perfect OS is nothing else than a
relational OS, I kept dreaming about building one someday.
Based on previous works such OS would probably have the following
requirements:
> The primary need for reaching independence between the physical and logical layer would impose the creation of a new filesystem
> The above filesystem would exclude a hierarchical *physical* organisation of the data: among other characteristics, the physical organisation would prohibit the use of indexes and other pointless trickery.
> The above filesystem would exclude a hierarchical *logical* organisation of the data: the system would allow the manipulation and creation of views/schema that would present data under a form that could be later server as a data source for a presentation widget.
> The above filesystem would not promote a hierarchical *user view* of the data. Some built-in *keyword resource view* (for a lack of a better word) widgets would be directly bound to logical views that user may define according to his/her needs....The concept of directory and file accessible to the user would be unexisting because the system would allow the user to express views of resources (which may be files) based solely on area of interest or keyword like views of the data.
So I started looking around for *filesystems* and found out the
mainstream latest trends: ext4, ext3...After doing some googling , I
realize these new trends are simply hypes as none of the material read
seems convincing. So I had this crazy idea : what about a relational
filesystem based on Linux Kernel: something we could cal REL-UX that
could be open to public as a free distribution? Any comments ideas?
How would you think a system such as REL-UX look like.(additionally to
the provided comments)? What would be its characteristics ?
Is anybody interested in working on that ?
Regards...
Received on Sat Jun 02 2007 - 10:31:21 CEST
