From owner-freebsd-hackers Fri Jan 10 18:12:24 2003 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B222337B401 for ; Fri, 10 Jan 2003 18:12:22 -0800 (PST) Received: from sccrmhc01.attbi.com (sccrmhc01.attbi.com [204.127.202.61]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1EB5443F18 for ; Fri, 10 Jan 2003 18:12:22 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from julian@elischer.org) Received: from InterJet.elischer.org (12-232-168-4.client.attbi.com[12.232.168.4]) by sccrmhc01.attbi.com (sccrmhc01) with ESMTP id <200301110212200010016moge>; Sat, 11 Jan 2003 02:12:21 +0000 Received: from localhost (localhost.elischer.org [127.0.0.1]) by InterJet.elischer.org (8.9.1a/8.9.1) with ESMTP id SAA46622; Fri, 10 Jan 2003 18:12:20 -0800 (PST) Date: Fri, 10 Jan 2003 18:12:20 -0800 (PST) From: Julian Elischer To: Wes Peters Cc: Kieren MacMillan , freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: anyone working on a new file system metaphor? In-Reply-To: <20030111100348.77472c3f.wes@softweyr.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Sat, 11 Jan 2003, Wes Peters wrote: > On Fri, 10 Jan 2003 11:03:15 -0500 > Kieren MacMillan wrote: > > > Hello, all you BSD hackers! > > > > A major change to the "file-folder-desktop" metaphor is long overdue, > > and it seems to me that FreeBSD -- with Mac OS X as a large and growing > > "child" -- is the perfect place to start the revolution... ;-) > > > > If anyone has seen Scopeware (), you'll know > > the kind of thing I'm thinking of: a universal indexing system where > > *any* file of *any* type in *any* location would be cross-referenced > > (using metadata as well as content where possible) in one or more > > "filters" or "streams". hmmm system-38/AS-400? > > Oddly enough, Evolution supports this concept for email. In addition to the usual support for mail folders and such, it has a virtual folder concept that allows you to group and view emails by sort/search criteria such as header contents. It's quite powerful; I use it for reviewing FreeBSD CVS commit messages and such quickly. > > Do you envision this as an actual new filesystem, or strictly as a user > interface 'view' onto the filesystem? A filesystem with extensible > attributes might be a good companion to such a system, where you can tag > a file with one or more attributes, then sort and view the files by attribute. > > -- > "Where am I, and what am I doing in this handbasket?" > > Wes Peters Softweyr LLC > wes@softweyr.com http://softweyr.com/ > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message