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In article <james-2410952327000001@slip-5-15.ots.utexas.edu>,
James McCartney <james@astro.as.utexas.edu> wrote:
>In article <46k9if$keu@engineer.mrg.uswest.com>, Frank NIchols
><"frank_nichols-contractor@msmgate"@msg.uswest.com> wrote:
>> I would like to suggest that we do away with files all together and move
>> on to a object soup.
>
>I agree. The only reason file systems need to exist is because there is
>not a cheap source of fast non-volatile RAM. If there was it would be much
>nicer to have everything be live objects in memory. I say make the entire
>disk a virtual address space and forget about files.
Just one problem with this scheme: what about bugs ?
I know of no machine that doesn't crash once in a while.
With disk-file systems, at least you get some kind of atomicity, and it's
infinitely easier to get only the file system bug-free and reasonably 
crash-proof, as compared with making a whole virtual memory system 
crash-proof.

Maybe having a better kind of database than your usual filesystem ?
And a transparent system layer so that files appear as higher level objects ?
But you definitely need some hard-core simple structure that can hardly
get corrupted underneath.
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