From owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Sun May 4 14:01:37 2008 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C9562106566B for ; Sun, 4 May 2008 14:01:37 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from thierry@pompo.net) Received: from ella.lautre.net (ella.lautre.net [80.67.160.76]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9A9798FC0A for ; Sun, 4 May 2008 14:01:37 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from thierry@pompo.net) Received: from graf.pompo.net (graf.pompo.net [81.56.186.139]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by mx.lautre.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 00A824C19B; Sun, 4 May 2008 16:01:34 +0200 (CEST) Received: by graf.pompo.net (Postfix, from userid 1001) id 21AF71148F; Sun, 4 May 2008 16:01:31 +0200 (CEST) Date: Sun, 4 May 2008 16:01:31 +0200 From: Thierry Thomas To: Rahul Siddharthan Message-ID: <20080504140131.GE57012@graf.pompo.net> Mail-Followup-To: Rahul Siddharthan , Roopinder Singh , "Jason C. Wells" , fbsd_chat References: <481CE0E7.7070900@highperformance.net> <6a506d980805040324k4b9cd9f8y2b75fd47781dbdfa@mail.gmail.com> <54806.78.86.146.100.1209903304.squirrel@secure.duzle.com> <6a506d980805040649k4d4e8174nb74256776db592c3@mail.gmail.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit In-Reply-To: <6a506d980805040649k4d4e8174nb74256776db592c3@mail.gmail.com> X-Face: (hRbQnK~Pt7$ct`!fupO(`y_WL4^-Iwn4@ly-.,[4xC4xc; y=\ipKMNm<1J>lv@PP~7Z<.t KjAnXLs: User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.2.3i X-Operating-System: FreeBSD 7.0-PRERELEASE i386 Organization: Kabbale Eros X-PGP: 0xC71405A2 Cc: "Jason C. Wells" , fbsd_chat , Roopinder Singh Subject: Re: Tired of Hierarchies X-BeenThere: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Non technical items related to the community List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 04 May 2008 14:01:37 -0000 Le Dim 4 mai 08 à 15:49:26 +0200, Rahul Siddharthan écrivait : > On Sun, May 4, 2008 at 5:45 PM, Roopinder Singh wrote: > > On Sun, May 4, 2008 11:24 am, Rahul Siddharthan wrote: > > > If you want to index your files (metadata, or informative filenames, or > > > whatever) and dump them all in one directory, go ahead. Thinking about > > > a suitable indexing system is an exercise for the reader. (A non-trivial > > > exercise. Library indexing systems are still a topic of research; I imagine > > > the complexity of indexing millions of items of entirely disparate kinds of > > > data, such as a typical computer contains, would be phenomenal.) > > > > Doesn't Beagle do this exact thing ? Or, have I got it completely wrong ? > > > > http://beagle-project.org/Main_Page > > Well, Beagle tries to spare you the trouble of doing metadata by looking inside > the files... and it handles directory trees fine. If you want to do what Jason > suggests -- dump everything in a single directory (like a single library room) > and depend on metadata and indexing to find what you want, Beagle would be > overkill... Maybe not Beagle, but Eaglemode, without B? -- Th. Thomas.