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 >> > >> > -- >> > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google >> Groups >> > "Camlistore" group. >> > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send >> an >> > email to [email protected] <javascript:>. >> > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. >> >> -- >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >> "Camlistore" group. >> To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an >> email to [email protected] <javascript:>. >> For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. >> > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Camlistore" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
