It's an interesting idea, and it's pretty easy to see how it could
give some applications a big boost. ...
Another concern is compatibility across file systems on the Mac. ...
+1.
And thinking one level up, every new interface that is specific to an
operating system adds that much work to portable applications (unless
we ignore it). Thank God for POSIX...
Another meta-remark, isn't this functionality better found at an
application level by using a library/embedded (R)DBMS such as SQLite?
If the FS engineers are looking for things to do, perhaps
optimisations that benefit all RDBMS on OS X would be the place to
start (MySQL, SQLite, BDB, PgSQL, Firebird, Ingres, and the dozens of
others).
--Toby
bri
On Mar 20, 2008, at 3:40 AM, Quinn wrote:
Greetings All
Mac OS X file system engineering is considering a new API for
inserting data in the middle of a file.
