Yes, I agree... when I think about it (as you suggest) as a permanent place 
to visit, it makes sense, but I tend to think it "backwards" sometimes :-)

Kind of like the old X-server/client days (which had server/client swapped 
from most other systems).

Bruce

On Monday, July 11, 2016 at 5:26:12 PM UTC-4, Gina White wrote:
>
> I feel like the name permanode is a little counter-intuitive, at least for 
> me.  In my mind permanence is rather like immutability and permanodes are 
> mutable.  I believe that the name permanode is more about the intent of the 
> node as being a fairly permanent place that I can visit to find the current 
> truth about something (e.g. the current set of files in a directory).
>
> On Mon, Jul 11, 2016 at 2:14 PM Mathieu Lonjaret <[email protected] 
> <javascript:>> wrote:
>
>> Hi,
>>
>> it's just a matter on how you want to model your data, what kind of
>> relationship you want to set up between your items, and how you want
>> to represent your data.
>> If all you want is e.g. to archive your data, then creating a
>> permanode for the directory is enough, as the files are still
>> reachable/searchable through the directory (static-set) relationship
>> (that is, once you have found the directory's permanode).
>>
>> hth,
>> Mathieu
>>
>>
>> On 11 July 2016 at 15:41,  <[email protected] <javascript:>> wrote:
>> > Hello all...
>> >
>> > Another newbie with a list of newbie questions.
>> >
>> > Don't want to inundate things, so figured I would start with just one 
>> :-)
>> >
>> > Why would something ever not be a permanode?
>> >
>> > Every time I think I have my head wrapped around permanodes, I get 
>> confused
>> > again.
>> >
>> > The FUSE interface makes all files permanodes (which makes sense to 
>> me)...
>> > but if I camput a directory, then just the directory is (which has
>> > implications for viewing the files, etc.)
>> >
>> > Guess I'm just lost.
>> >
>> > Thoughts?
>> >
>> > Thanks,
>> > Bruce
>> >
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