DIRECTORY/FILE MANAGEMENT SYSTEM (DFMS) VS DATABASE MANAGEMENT SYSTEM (DBMS)

摘要

We present a directory/file management system designed to provide intelligent dynamic file management. To the best of our knowledge it is the first file management system that incorporates structure within the fundamental descriptions of the files. Microsoft's Operating Systems (Windows 7, ex.), for example, use databases within application software tools that allow users the ability to organize certain types of files. We have found no evidence of a file management system that can create logical views for all files found on the hardware. We tested the architecture using a prototype DFMS built in Visual Basic and executed in a Windows environment, using a resident application program as a temporary extension to their operating system-our current implementation is a parasitic, not native, DFMS. However, nothing precludes one from using this architecture as the basis for the development of a full DFMS implementation, and this would be a cleaner implementation.