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Originally Posted by DNSB
Considering the time and effort that has been tossed into database file systems, it may not be as easy as you think. Microsoft gave up on WinFS as one of the pillars of Windows Vista for example. The only company that seems to have managed to produce a usable product is IBM (see Fortress Rochester for more information). Apache's Hadoop and the very off the beaten track Google File System have some database file system concepts included in their design.
Regards,
David
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It is not the implementation of a "database file system" that I said would be easy. I said that "If Kobo had it implemented to the potential of the concept, what would appear to the user as "a full blown file browser" would be the simplest of things to provide." Perhaps the posts between your's and mine suggest Kobo has yet to accomplish that. Even without much more improvement Kobo should be able to extract a menu listing, from its database, that conforms to the hierarchy of a user maintained file structure.
Luck;
Ken