Or in OS X with smart folders where you define a set of search terms
and as write operations occur on the known filesystems the folder
contents will be updated to reflect the current state of the attached
filesystems....
The structures you defined seemed to be designed around the idea of
reductionism (ie - subfolders representing a subset of the parent)
which cannot currently be implemented in Libraries or Smart folders
since the contents are read-only listings. I don't know for sure
about the Win7 Libraries behaviour though - it might be more
permissive in this respect...
Erik
On 25 oct. 2009, at 20:48, j...@lentecs.com wrote:
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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