Have you ever used a Mac? HFS has had these features for years. On Mon, Mar 17, 2008 at 6:33 PM, Bryan Wagoner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Actually, having a database on top of an FS is really useful. It's a Content > Addressable Storage system. One of the problem home users have is that > they are putting more and more of their lives in digital format. Users need > a way to organize and search all that info in some sort of meaningful way. > Imagine having thousands of photos spread all over your filesystems with > nothing but filenames associated with them. That's not too easily searchable > or organized. > > Imagine all the objects stored on your filesystem have tags associated with > them or other metadata that is required at save time. Then you can start > doing things like virtual folders. Imagine a folder on your windows desktop > that says "Steely Dan" and when you click it runs a query shows you all the > music files on your computer by Steely Dan and pretends to be an explorer > windows. or a virtual folder that says "Springbreak 2008 pics" and when you > click it it goes through all your gagillion photos and creates an explorer > window of just the spring break pics. > > Today, you'd have to tag the Metadata yourself as you put content on your > computer, but Microsoft has other initiatives to do facial recognition in > photos and some other things to go along with the Content addressable storage > system. > > There's a lot of uses for Content Addressable Storage systems including > revision control and some other things that home users can benefit from. At > the Enterprise level, such a system would be something like the > 5800(Honeycomb) from Sun. > > > > > This message posted from opensolaris.org > _______________________________________________ > zfs-discuss mailing list > zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org > http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss >
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