On Thu, Sep 16, 2010 at 3:58 PM, mohit verma <mohit89mlnc@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > hello, > when we install any package (like in ubuntu) ,at end the terminal shows > "reading database" . the idea i got by my friend is that package manager > uses this database (like .deb or rpm). > but my question is : everything in linux is a file so it(database or files Everything in Linux is a file breaks down at the networking stack. This is one location where the whole system is not abstracted through the filesystem. > that it contains) must be placed somewhere in the filesystem.what is the > difference if i say that package manager accesses nothing but the > filesystem ( obviously a part of it) and database of a system( computer ) is > nothing but the filesystem (part of it ) itself ? > i mean: what differs between these two that imposes us to name them > differently? It is possible to run a database not on a filesystem, but rather on a raw partition without any filesystem. That is not the case with the package manager though. -- John -- To unsubscribe from this list: send an email with "unsubscribe kernelnewbies" to ecartis@xxxxxxxxxxxx Please read the FAQ at http://kernelnewbies.org/FAQ
