On 5/8/07, Jeff V. Merkey jmerkey@wolfmountaingroup.com wrote:
Jim Wilson wrote:
Interesting, but does not scale. Plan 9 has another spoof FD like this, though also primitive. This does not scale as a true WikipediaFS, but I know a true Wikipedia based File System that does ... :-)
Why would this not scale? File system wrappers such as FUSE allow you to override read/write/readdir etc. Of course readdir() on /enwiki/ would be terribly slow but so would the equivalent operation on Special:Allpages, there's no reason why read/write operations wouldn't scale however.