I meant to add to my previous question that if pointers to goodness-knows-what objects are required, then MySQL may be the best solution. Dan -- Daniel Ferber Lustre DOE, DOD, and NSF Partnerships Sun Microsystems +1 651-204-0801 (Office) +1 651-356-9481 (Cell) Daniel.Ferber at Sun.com Sun Internal: x29704 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://lists.lustre.org/pipermail/lustre-discuss/attachments/20080514/6bc985d7/attachment.html