This isn’t a high-priority question.
I’m developing a hobby OS and I’m looking into file systems. I’ve thought about writing my own, and that appeals, but I’m also very interested in the database-as-a-filesystem paradigm. It would be nice to not have to write all of the stuff that goes into the DBMS (e.g. parsers, query schedulers, etc) myself.
So I was wondering what sort of filesystem requirements Postgre has. For example, could I write a simple interface layer that just requests blocks from the physical device and translate those into byte sets, or does the DB actually require multiple files mapped by a larger file system that maintains names, etc.
I guess my real question is how much file system support is really required by the DBMS’s disk routines. Please reply to nadiasvertex@gmail.com since I’m not subscribed to this list. Thanks in advance!
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