[Info-vax] Modular VMS, was: Re: Prism/Pillar, was: Re: inertia or fundamentals about langages?

[Craig A. Berry]

On 5/29/19 9:19 PM, Stephen Hoffman wrote:
> On 2019-05-29 23:41:15 +0000, Dave Froble said:
> 
>> On 5/29/2019 2:11 PM, Simon Clubley wrote:

>>> The XQP cannot be extended by the end user so they can't plug in new 
>>> filesystems, either in the kernel or within a process.
>>
>> Depends ....
>>
>>> You know the following, but for those who don't, take a look at the 
>>> examples of what you can do in Unix-land:
>>
>> Not interested.
> 
> There's more than file systems that can be exposed this way.  What if 
> you could connect to a database behind that?  Yeah, probably not a 
> priority for many.  Makes a very interesting way to access a database or 
> a version control system or such, and I've encountered at least one 
> package that did just this; that presented the contents of a version 
> control system as a file system: ClearCase, with what was referred to as 
> a VOB or Virtual Object Base,  It was really quite slick, too.

Microsoft has basically done an inside out version of that to git to
make it able to handle the massive Windows codebase, which at 300GB
claims to be the largest git repository in the world:

<https://vfsforgit.org>