[Ericson2314]

Yeah I am talking more deep architecture, and BeOS is more notable here mostly on just the user-interface level.

However, I think it is reasonable to think that with way more time and money, these things would meet up. Think about it as digging a tunnel from both sides of the mountain.

[foobiekr]

Microsoft poured at least $100M into this hole with nothing to show for it.

[Ericson2314]

That doesn't disprove anything for me. It just says POSIX DOS lowest common denominator network effects are a hell of a drug.

Whenever we're talking about interfaces, coordination success or failure is the name of the game.

[foobiekr]

What problem do you think a DB-as-filesystem solves? The only obvious one that makes any sense at all is cross-file transactions.

[Ericson2314]

The filesystem is a bad database

Directories are a shitty underpowered way to organize data?

No good transactions

Conflation of different needs such as atomic replace vs log-structured

I would like to use a better database instead.

[foobiekr]

Would you pay 50x performance decrease?

[Ericson2314]

No, and I would also not need to.