Kevin, I don't know for the others... but I'd like to keep reading this thread and how it is evolving. The discussion is interesting. Fabrizio > > Mladen, > > Please side-bar with me. I'll cover your questions. > I don't want to get spanked for spam if this thread > grows tiring to others... > > I'll answer your questions under separate cover, > but the short answer is DLM and lock caching. Remember > that the processing which is causing concern for you > (fork,exec/map text and demand paging) is base > functionality for a filesystem....and as I stated > in my last post, unless a given technology can > perform basic FS func, don't call it an FS at > all, more less a CFS. > > Heaven's sake, we'd never call /etc/passwd > a database now, would we? :-) > > -- //www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l