Am 13.06.2014 um 15:53 schrieb Jason Riedy: > And Skylar Thompson writes: >> There seems to be a trend in the bioinformatics community for >> using the filesystem as a database. > > Well, the file system *is* a hierarchical key-value store, and > it's one that just about every program can use without special > adapters, syntax, and/or complexity. Users already are familiar > with tons of tools for querying and manipulating the file system, > etc. And it's stupidly easy to parallelize over keys (files), > only re-run jobs that have changed, etc. using common tools. > > I know there's some work out there on single-node file systems > layered on fast k/v stores. I wonder if it wouldn't be wiser to > build a FS on a distributed k/v store for these uses...
Something uisng FUSE to present a hierarchical database as filesystem? I only found some older work about accessing an SQL database in this way. -- Reuti _______________________________________________ Beowulf mailing list, Beowulf@beowulf.org sponsored by Penguin Computing To change your subscription (digest mode or unsubscribe) visit http://www.beowulf.org/mailman/listinfo/beowulf
