Specifically I've been looking at the innodb engine for MariaDB. While talking with Monty this weekend, he posited that I could write a wrapper library to go around the innodb library that would handle the connection, but would just override the glibc functions for posix filesystem commands. Does this sound feasible? If it is, couldn't you essentially do an LD_PRELOAD wrapper around any application to do that? Sure, you would have to probably resort to environment variables to set the server and volume data, but in theory would it work?
