[nzlug] 'Chunked' file systems?

[Michal Ludvig]

Peter Butler wrote:

> I'm not sure of your exact requirements, but it sounds to me like you 
> need a database rather than a filesystem.  If you still need something 
> that looks like a filesystem you could use one of the FUSE modules to 
> make a database look like a filesystem:
> 
> https://sourceforge.net/projects/mysqlfs/

Just beware that the release / CVS version on sourceforge is far from 
complete. I have heavily improved the thing and now am even able to 
compile kernels in mysqlfs ;-) Obviously you'll need a well tuned mysql 
for it to work fast enough.

Michal