Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: silent semantic changes with reiser4 | From | Christophe Saout <> | Date | Thu, 26 Aug 2004 18:44:13 +0200 |
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Am Donnerstag, den 26.08.2004, 12:32 -0400 schrieb Will Dyson:
> > Andrew, we need to compete with WinFS and Dominic Giampaolo's filesystem > > for Apple, and that means we need to put search engine and database > > functionality into the filesystem. It takes 11 years of serious > > I'm very curious about your ideas on how to put search engine and > database functionality into the filesystem.
I could imagine something like this.
There are some special folders or files or whatever under every file where some userspace can put some metadata. A keyword perhaps.
echo linux > file.bla/keywords/topic
The filesystem might then automatically put these keywords into an index and then provide a search mechanism elsewhere where it could ask "find me all dentries with the keyword 'linux'." and it would return a list like locate does. Only that it's in realtime and also works when moving the file around (but not when copying with an unaware program for obvious reasons).
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