This actually sounds a little like what ms is trying to accomplish, in win7, 
with libraries.  They will act as standard folders if you treat them as such.  
But they are really designed to group different pools of files into one easy 
place.  You just have to configure it to pull from local and remote sources.  I 
have heard it works well with win home server, and win7 networks. 

Its also similar to what google and the like are doing with their web crawlers.

But I think this is something better left to run on top of the file system.  
Rather than integrated into the file system.  A true database and "crawling 
bot" would seem to be the better method of implementing this.  

------Original Message------
From: Orvar Korvar
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To: zfs Discuss
Subject: [zfs-discuss] Dumb idea?
Sent: Oct 24, 2009 8:12 AM

Would this be possible to implement ontop ZFS? Maybe it is a dumb idea, I dont 
know. What do you think, and how to improve this?

Assume all files are put in the zpool, helter skelter. And then you can create 
arbitrary different filters that shows you the files you want to see. 

As of now, you have files in one directory structure. This makes the 
organization of the files, hardcoded. You have /Movies/Action and that is it. 
But if you had all movies in one large zpool, and if you could programmatically 
define different structures that act as filters, you could have different 
directory structures.

Programmatically defined directory structure1, that acts on the zpool:
/Movies/Action

Programmatically defined directory structure2:
/Movies/Actors/AlPacino

etc. 

Maybe this is what MS WinFS was about? Maybe tag the files? Maybe a relational 
database ontop ZFS? Maybe no directories at all? I dont know, just brain 
storming. Is this is a dumb idea? Or old idea?
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