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Subject: Re: link() security
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> > And then unrealized when they hit performance limitations. Its a trade off
> > and one that most news systems seem to prefer to use a custom database
> > for
> 
> Well, a database is basically a custom filesystem.

I would have to disagree. There are fundamentally different transaction
semantics between the two as well as indexing constraints. I can't for
example find commit() and rollback() in posix.1 8)


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