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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Microsoft did. It was called [WinFS](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WinFS). It just didn’t catch on.

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