Quote:
Originally Posted by DNSB
As far as I am aware, the only OS that used a database for the filesystem was the Pick OS where everything was an object in the database. The proposed WinFS filesystem for Windows Vista was supposed to be based on a relational database but never made it out of an early beta since it was a resource hog. One comment from a beta tester was that it made a hard drive run at floppy disk speeds.
|
IBM wanted a version of OS/2 with DB2 integrated.
That and Pick OS are laudable ideas. But no-one yet has figured how to do that level of abstraction sensibly yet. I spent nearly 5 years (part time) trying to figure UI for documents were a user would not deal with files.
Android tried to pretend there was no file system. Only works for the User of trivial apps that don't interwork.