NFS server for Smalltalk?

reic0024 at d.umn.edu reic0024 at d.umn.edu
Thu Aug 22 16:20:26 UTC 2002


"Stephen Pair" <spair at advantive.com> wrote:
> > You want to be able to run stuff out of the database?  
> > Data-objects that are byecode for Squeak, or native code for your CPU?
> 
> Yes, think of it this way: forget about the database for second and
> imagine a squeak image that has a bunch of ByteArrays, which happen to
> be files for various types of systems.  A WebDAV or NFS server in Squeak
> would allow me to mount those files and use any normal operating system
> tool to manipulate them.

Ok.  But what would be the advantage of this?

How are you representing hierarchy (folders) in BDB/Squeak?  Does BDB
have any sense of hierarchy- ithought it was just a persistent hash
table (more or less) ?

Aaron



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