← Back to context Comment by szundi 2 years ago Filesystems are DB like structures these days anyway. 4 comments szundi Reply jeltz 2 years ago Are they? From my experience from databases and some limited from filesystems I would disagree. Sure, there are some similarities but not that much. chipdart 2 years ago > Filesystems are DB like structures these days anyway.I think you're confusing the fact that an application uses data structures with that application being like a database. lupire 2 years ago Other way around. Applications use databases instead of the filesystem. pdimitar 2 years ago Where do you get that from? In my practice this was never true and still is not.
jeltz 2 years ago Are they? From my experience from databases and some limited from filesystems I would disagree. Sure, there are some similarities but not that much.
chipdart 2 years ago > Filesystems are DB like structures these days anyway.I think you're confusing the fact that an application uses data structures with that application being like a database. lupire 2 years ago Other way around. Applications use databases instead of the filesystem.
pdimitar 2 years ago Where do you get that from? In my practice this was never true and still is not.
Are they? From my experience from databases and some limited from filesystems I would disagree. Sure, there are some similarities but not that much.
> Filesystems are DB like structures these days anyway.
I think you're confusing the fact that an application uses data structures with that application being like a database.
Other way around. Applications use databases instead of the filesystem.
Where do you get that from? In my practice this was never true and still is not.