Once upon a time, Callum Lerwick <seg(a)haxxed.com> said:
Dude I'm going to blow your mind: The filesystem is a database.
Locking,
atomic transactions and crash recovery (journaling), access control,
efficient storage and retrieval of data. Same set of issues.
I'm with you for a lot of this, but I have to say that I don't think
"atomic transactions" are a feature of general purpose filesystems. If
I store my configuration data with one-value-per-file, how do I
atomically update multiple values? How do I have a transaction that
rolls back changes if changing value #9 of 10 fails?
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Chris Adams <cmadams(a)hiwaay.net>
Systems and Network Administrator - HiWAAY Internet Services
I don't speak for anybody but myself - that's enough trouble.