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From: ge@phoibos.cs.kun.nl (Ge Weijers)
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Subject: Re: Extremely Fast Filesystems
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Date: 13 Aug 90 12:52:32 GMT
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davecb@yunexus.YorkU.CA (David Collier-Brown) writes:

>	I confess I'd have **real** trouble selling a raw bullet file system
>to a customer doing anything but cad/cam, software development[2] or small
>databases. 

In the context of Amoeba no limit is posed on the number of differently
implemented file systems. Bullet is certainly not the solution to all
storage problems. It is supposed to support a limited set of operations
(e.g. loading code images from disk) very quickly.

So you'd sell him a DB file system AND Bullet for the 'normal' files.
Directories are stored elsewhere, so the DB files and the other files
can still be stored in the same directory.

Ge'
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