I can't believe this.
There isnt really any difference between a wireless device and a 'personal computer', when
you have abstractions for the hardware.
The patent office _really_ needs to do some thinking about this.
Integrity of data in a database filesystem.
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MySQL FS
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This database filesystem might have a real advantage in terms of keeping the database records in a consistent state.
Remember that in Unix files have arbitrary data. So a journal filesystem tends to keep the meta-data in a consistent state. They don't do much about the application data written into the files.
However if mySQLfs had knowledge of the records being written, presumably it could do a lot of the cool stuff done in main frame OS's to ensure integrity.
I don't know the VFS interfaces though, so I'm not sure if this is implementable under the current linux framework.
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I can't believe this. There isnt really any difference between a wireless device and a 'personal computer', when you have abstractions for the hardware. The patent office _really_ needs to do some thinking about this.
This database filesystem might have a real advantage in terms of keeping the database records in a consistent state. Remember that in Unix files have arbitrary data. So a journal filesystem tends to keep the meta-data in a consistent state. They don't do much about the application data written into the files. However if mySQLfs had knowledge of the records being written, presumably it could do a lot of the cool stuff done in main frame OS's to ensure integrity. I don't know the VFS interfaces though, so I'm not sure if this is implementable under the current linux framework.