> Personally, I would fear a "pgfs." Writing a kernel component would be a bad
> idea. FAT has potential, but I don't think kernel developers put any serious
> thought into it, so I don't think it is a mission critical component in most
> cases. Just the behavior that I saw with FAT on SMP Linux, tells me to be
> careful.
>
> Postgres is at the mercy of the file systems, WAL make it even more so. My gut
> tells me that this aspect of the project will refuse to be taken lightly.
From a portability standpoint, I think if we go anywhere, it would be to
write directly into device files representing sections of a disk.
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