Re: What would be a truly relational operating system ?
Date: Thu, 12 Nov 2009 11:53:16 -0800 (PST)
Message-ID: <25082932-aaff-44bd-ae9c-84d12c97ee1e_at_d21g2000yqn.googlegroups.com>
On 11 nov, 23:42, Casey Hawthorne <caseyhHAMMER_T..._at_istar.ca> wrote:
> Are you talking about a truly relational file system?
> As opposed to a truly relational O/S.
A truly relational O/S would require a truly relational file system
since current filesystems are primarily designed for direct image
systems.
Building a relational OS on the top of a direct image file system woul
dbe equivalent to building a ferrari with a poor man's car wheels.
The filesystem and the storage mechanism would have to be specifically
though to minimize IO operations into representing a file as a
relation presentation. The role of the relational filesystem would be
that representation.
> The O/S knows where it's data structures are and what they are used
> for, so I don't see the advantage of the overhead of a RDBMS for O/S
> files.
> Although, the Windows registry could benefit from having an RDBMS
> version copy of itself, since it would be easier to do ad-hoc queries
> on this important structure.
Why should we only limit a relational OS to querying. Once every
element is a relation representation
, the possibilities are endless.
> Regards,
> Casey
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