Date: Sat, 11 Jan 2003 10:03:48 -0800 From: Wes Peters <wes@softweyr.com> To: Kieren MacMillan <kmacmillan@coresolutions.ca> Cc: freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: anyone working on a new file system metaphor? Message-ID: <20030111100348.77472c3f.wes@softweyr.com> In-Reply-To: <0747734E-24B5-11D7-9116-00306572DA52@coresolutions.ca> References: <0747734E-24B5-11D7-9116-00306572DA52@coresolutions.ca>
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On Fri, 10 Jan 2003 11:03:15 -0500 Kieren MacMillan <kmacmillan@coresolutions.ca> 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 (<http://www.scopeware.com>), 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". 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
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