Why don’t we write a database file system? Isn’t a file system practically a database already? Isn’t layering an OS between the data and the database application slowing things down?

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Why don’t we write a database file system? Isn’t a file system practically a database already? Isn’t layering an OS between the data and the database application slowing things down?

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it’s been done; other people have mentioned the main cases, but there’s also iSeries, where tables can be seen as files where records have fixed lengths; it was widely used at some points, and there is a good chance your bank still uses it

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