HAMMER filesystem update - design document
    Bill Hacker 
    wbh at conducive.org
       
    Thu Oct 11 01:49:34 PDT 2007
    
    
  
Michael Neumann wrote:
This post by Matt went off-list, but I think should go to the list as well.
*snip*
    A HAMMER-aware database would be able to store its records using the
    key space directly.  It opens up some intriguing possibilities.
                        -Matt
                        Matthew Dillon
                        <dillon at backplane.com>
. .. including implementing a ZFS-like DB/fs crossbreed *ATOP* HAMMER.
Or a Venti workalike (surpassed already on feature-set, but not storage 
efficiency AFAICS).
IF one really wanted to do either badly enough.  And had a need.
Too complicated for my taste, but PostgreSQL data store might be another matter 
entirely.
Bill
    
    
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