'Storage' to Replace Traditional Filesystems?

Posted by michael on Friday September 5, 2003 @12:52AM from the find-porn dept.

JigSaw writes "OSNews is reporting on Storage, an innovative project which aims to replace the traditional hierarchical filesystems with a new document store which is database-based (PostgreSQL). The current implementation, built under Gnome 2.x for now, offers natural language access, network transparency, and a number of other features. The project is currently in alpha (screenshots already available), and it is part of the next major generation of Gnome. It is currently developed by Seth Nickell, the person responsible for the enhanced Gnome usability on 2.x and its HIG, among other things."

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filesystem is a database by 1s44c · 2003-09-05 01:07 · Score: 0, Flamebait

So it's about that time again. The old database is a filesystem is a database thing. To people that have not heard of this before this is not a new idea. OS/390 has been doing this for a very long time.

What this world needs is a really big injection of orginal thought, not a rehash of every idea that gets old enough for most people to forget it the first time around.