[linux-elitists] A modest proposal: SSD disk acceleration in kernel.

[Ruben Safir]

Eugen Leitl wrote:
> On Sat, Oct 25, 2008 at 08:32:10PM -0400, Ruben Safir wrote:
>   
>> Eugen Leitl wrote:
>>     
>>> No more filesystems. Just objects and memory. 
>>>       
>> Yeah - this is gibberish.  And how does the system find them?  Uhhh 
>> well, yah see, you
>> have this data and you keep tract of it ...
>>     
>
> Start here http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Common_Lisp_Object_System
> Just download SBCL sources, and look up how it's implemented.
>  
>   

No - I won't.  LISP has used up all its capital with regard to wasting 
my time.

>> Yeah that is a database.
>>     
>
> Would you call a memory lookup a database, too? That does not
> strike me as a very useful abstraction.
>   

A recipe  box and the Dewey decimal system are databases.  Get with it   
We're talking 7th grade concepts now.

Ruben

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