Preparing for nonvolatile RAM

Posted May 30, 2012 4:43 UTC (Wed) by dlang (guest, #313)
In reply to: Preparing for nonvolatile RAM by daglwn
Parent article: Preparing for nonvolatile RAM

There are a lot of people who have advocated eliminating filesystems.

However, they have always run into the stumbling block that it's just impractical to deal with all hunks of data in a flat namespace. Directories are EVIL, but nobody has make anything else work even one tenth as well

Also, just keeping everything in ram falls apart as soon as you want someone else to access it (or you loose the device, or the device gets destroyed, or ...)

Many of the people pushing back have been though this "eliminate filesystems" experiment before and have the scars to show for it. Listen and learn (then go try and build something to prove them wrong :-)

Preparing for nonvolatile RAM

Posted May 31, 2012 19:35 UTC (Thu) by timka.org (guest, #53366) [Link]

Dmitry Zavalishin, the author of Phantom OS (which "eliminates filesystems"), was asked the question about removable storage when he was giving a talk about the OS at HighLoad++ in 2009.

His idea is to start a separate Phantom VM for a removable media which then can be seen as another "host" accessible via "network". AFAIU, this means Phantom's native IPC is substituted by some protocol. Smells somewhat like Plan 9 to me.