Talk:COMP 3000 Midterm review 2010

--Gbint 15:16, 20 October 2010 (UTC) I think that questions 11 and 12 are the most foreign concepts to me, as I have never had the opportunity to be around an object-based or database-based file system. Both of these ideas center around providing storage at a level more intelligent than just a block, with meta data and permissions sort of built-in rather than bolted on as an afterthought (a mature afterthought, sure, but its all still just blocks).

Current OFS and DbFS systems seem to just be an abstraction on top of blocks, though, even if it is implemented on the HDD controller. Do you think we will see storage systems where the basic unit of storage is something other a block?