From owner-freebsd-hackers Fri Jan 10 18: 3:36 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 98F6A37B401 for ; Fri, 10 Jan 2003 18:03:35 -0800 (PST) Received: from smtp-relay.omnis.com (smtp-relay.omnis.com [216.239.128.27]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id F08C943F3F for ; Fri, 10 Jan 2003 18:03:34 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from wes@softweyr.com) Received: from salty.rapid.stbernard.com (corp-2.ipinc.com [199.245.188.2]) by smtp-relay.omnis.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id DC69442D89; Fri, 10 Jan 2003 18:03:23 -0800 (PST) Date: Sat, 11 Jan 2003 10:03:48 -0800 From: Wes Peters To: Kieren MacMillan 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> Organization: Softweyr.com X-Mailer: Sylpheed version 0.8.8 (GTK+ 1.2.10; i386-portbld-freebsd4.7) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit 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 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". 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