Any ideas?
Olaf
At 13.26 30/09/2002, you wrote:
>Is there a database filsystem for linux?
>I call "database filesystem" a filsystem that can associate a set of "classes"
>to every file:
>
>file cantaperme.mp3 -> [music, ]anime, noir, ost, italian
>file wallpaper1.png -> [image, ]anime, noir, wallpaper
>file review.html -> [hypertext, ]anime, noir, review[, english]
>
>and so on.
>
>Once done, I doesn't matter where the file is: I [should be able to] make
>a directory called, for example, "%%anime, wallpaper%%" ("%" is an example,
>just to let the os know that the name contains a command and is not the
>real directory name, specified in some other way) and I find inside the
>newly created directory every file with "anime" and "wallpaper" inside the
>"classes" field (in other words: every wallpaper about anime).
>
>I could also make a directory called "%%anime, noir%%&&canta&&" (again,
>"&" is an example: it tells the os to look only for files containing the
>string between && and && in the name) to find every file containing noir
>and anime in the classes field and containing "canta" inside the name.
>
>Of course the name of the resulting directory could be specified after the
>last "%%" or "&&" ("%%anime, music, ost%%&&ogg&&Music files from anime OSTs
>compressed with ogg vorbis").
>
>Similar things can be done with symlinks, but once the FS is a DB many more
>possiilities are opened.
>
>I know Reiser is good to index files (in a future release, I read something
>in the site www.namesys.com), while XFS can have multiple stream for every
>file.
>
>Moreover, I'd like to see it under linux than under win! (I think they will
>have it before 2005).
>
>Maybe you people know a DB FS ready to use or an experimental one.
>
>Thanks a lot!
>
>Olaf
>
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