@mkluwe:
Filesystems are databases by definition (they are structured sets of data). But of course not all databases are/work equal, because they serve different purposes...
Maybe it would be good to amend POSIX to provide an (optional?) mechanism for guaranteed transactional integrity for some operations though... (examples why this might be useful were given earlier in this thread).
@mkluwe:
Filesystems are databases by definition (they are structured sets of data). But of course not all databases are/work equal, because they serve different purposes...
Maybe it would be good to amend POSIX to provide an (optional?) mechanism for guaranteed transactional integrity for some operations though... (examples why this might be useful were given earlier in this thread).