Re: GSoC: Semantic File System

2009-04-07 Thread Stephan Lichtenauer
Gabriele, Robert, Am 02.04.2009 um 19:26 schrieb Robert Watson: In the BeOS model, or my reinterpretation based on something I read a long time ago and then presumably had dreams about, the split is a bit different: the file system maintains indexes of extended attributes, which are

Re: GSoC: Semantic File System

2009-04-07 Thread Robert Watson
On Tue, 7 Apr 2009, Stephan Lichtenauer wrote: Am 02.04.2009 um 19:26 schrieb Robert Watson: In the BeOS model, or my reinterpretation based on something I read a long time ago and then presumably had dreams about, the split is a bit different: the file system maintains indexes of extended

Re: GSoC: Semantic File System

2009-04-06 Thread Gabriele Modena
On Thu, Apr 2, 2009 at 7:26 PM, Robert Watson rwat...@freebsd.org wrote: In this moment I am considering also an userspace approach similar to Spotlight/Beagles, but I don't know how I could propose this as a FreeBSD GSoC project. I think that would make a fine GSoC proposal. Keep in mind

Re: GSoC: Semantic File System

2009-04-02 Thread Gabriele Modena
On Sun, Mar 22, 2009 at 6:52 PM, Robert Watson rwat...@freebsd.org wrote: We are certainly not uninterested in projects along these lines, but I think the trick will be creating a convincing proposal that argues that (a) you can do the work in a summer, (b) there's a compelling usage case for

Re: GSoC: Semantic File System

2009-04-02 Thread Robert Watson
On Thu, 2 Apr 2009, Gabriele Modena wrote: On Sun, Mar 22, 2009 at 6:52 PM, Robert Watson rwat...@freebsd.org wrote: We are certainly not uninterested in projects along these lines, but I think the trick will be creating a convincing proposal that argues that (a) you can do the work in a

Re: GSoC: Semantic File System

2009-03-22 Thread Sergey Babkin
Sorry if this sounds like s tupid suggestion, but have you thought abou= t doing an user-space prototype first? It's usually much easier to deve= lop and modify. Then after the features get worked out, move it into the= kernel. -SB Mar 21, 2009 07:51:18 AM, [1]gabriele.mod=

Re: GSoC: Semantic File System

2009-03-22 Thread Robert Watson
On Sat, 21 Mar 2009, Gabriele Modena wrote: I am an AI master student at the university of Amsterdam. On of my current research interests lays in the area of information retrieval and I would like to do a project within my University research group starting next june. I am actually

Re: GSoC: Semantic File System

2009-03-21 Thread Julian Elischer
Gabriele Modena wrote: Hello, I am an AI master student at the university of Amsterdam. On of my current research interests lays in the area of information retrieval and I would like to do a project within my University research group starting next june. I am actually studying background