Re: An olpcfs experience report

2008-04-25 Thread Joshua N Pritikin
On Fri, Apr 25, 2008 at 04:59:56PM -0400, C. Scott Ananian wrote: > If you want a solid semantic solution to the problem, you're looking > at something like: > http://portal.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=1242520.1242521&coll=&dl=ACM > but that requires extending the filesystem API to support > transactio

Re: An olpcfs experience report

2008-04-25 Thread Joshua N Pritikin
My other question about OLPCFS is how the versioning interacts with activities which work with projects composed of discrete elements (such as TamTam). I'm not sure whether there is a problem here. I'm just thinking out loud. TamTam deals with sounds which are stored as independent self-contained

Re: An olpcfs experience report

2008-04-25 Thread Joshua N Pritikin
On Fri, Apr 25, 2008 at 12:38:59PM -0400, C. Scott Ananian wrote: > On Fri, Apr 25, 2008 at 12:30 PM, Joshua N Pritikin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> +wrote: > > > If you use BDB correctly, it seems to me to be pretty solid and mature > > > -- a conclusion which concurs with the long list of BDB users. > >

Re: An olpcfs experience report

2008-04-25 Thread C. Scott Ananian
On Fri, Apr 25, 2008 at 2:47 PM, Joshua N Pritikin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > My other question about OLPCFS is how the versioning interacts with > activities which work with projects composed of discrete elements (such as > TamTam). I'm not sure whether there is a problem here. I'm just thinki

Re: An olpcfs experience report

2008-04-25 Thread C. Scott Ananian
On Fri, Apr 25, 2008 at 12:30 PM, Joshua N Pritikin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Fri, Apr 25, 2008 at 12:12:28PM -0400, C. Scott Ananian wrote: > > In the current olpcfs1 implementation, all metadata is stored in > > Berkeley DB; the actual file contents are stored in a simple > > content-add

Re: An olpcfs experience report

2008-04-25 Thread Joshua N Pritikin
On Fri, Apr 25, 2008 at 12:12:28PM -0400, C. Scott Ananian wrote: > In the current olpcfs1 implementation, all metadata is stored in > Berkeley DB; the actual file contents are stored in a simple > content-addressable store. You say "content-addressable store," but what does that mean implementat

Re: An olpcfs experience report

2008-04-25 Thread C. Scott Ananian
On Fri, Apr 25, 2008 at 10:24 AM, Joshua N Pritikin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I wish I had more time to study the implementation. > > What is stored in Berkeley DB? Only the indexes? The dependency on > Berkeley DB makes me nervous. I recall the Subversion Berkeley DB > backend suffered from

Re: An olpcfs experience report

2008-04-25 Thread Joshua N Pritikin
On Fri, Apr 25, 2008 at 10:25:53AM +0200, Bert Freudenberg wrote: > On 25.04.2008, at 04:05, Michael Stone wrote: > > [1]: http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Olpcfs > > This is not a technical assessment, but I like the olpcfs idea. I like it too. I wish I had more time to study the implementation. What

Re: An olpcfs experience report

2008-04-25 Thread Bert Freudenberg
On 25.04.2008, at 04:05, Michael Stone wrote: > Over the last few weeks, I've spent a fair bit of time producing > several > essay drafts and transcriptions of IRC conversations. Something you > may > not have known is that I did so on top of olpcfs [1,2]. Yesterday, 1cc > experienced a power

An olpcfs experience report

2008-04-24 Thread Michael Stone
Over the last few weeks, I've spent a fair bit of time producing several essay drafts and transcriptions of IRC conversations. Something you may not have known is that I did so on top of olpcfs [1,2]. Yesterday, 1cc experienced a power failure which briefly took down my working machine. Today, with