Re: [Sugar-devel] FUSE for Journal?

2011-06-18 Thread Sameer Verma
On Sat, Jun 18, 2011 at 9:15 AM, Sridhar Dhanapalan srid...@laptop.org.au wrote: On 18 June 2011 04:58, Martin Abente martin.abente.lah...@gmail.com wrote: Not 100% sure, but the conditions changed a little bit since then: * The journal integrates a better with external storage devices. *

[Sugar-devel] FUSE for Journal?

2011-06-17 Thread Sameer Verma
I've been messing with FUSE (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Filesystem_in_Userspace) in another context (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tahoe_Least-Authority_Filesystem) and was wondering if the Sugar Journal would talk to FUSE in any way. That might allow us to bridge Nautilus field manager and the

Re: [Sugar-devel] FUSE for Journal?

2011-06-17 Thread Martin Abente
Actually, I have been playing with it in the last 2 days. What I am basically doing (as a proof on concept) is a xmlrpc-FUSE filesystem. Since FUSE provides a native FS interaction there is nothing special to be done, _it works_ (I mean it literally) just as a external storage device. What is

Re: [Sugar-devel] FUSE for Journal?

2011-06-17 Thread Gonzalo Odiard
There are other older intents: http://lists.sugarlabs.org/archive/sugar-devel/2009-June/014815.html http://www.mail-archive.com/sugar-devel@lists.sugarlabs.org/msg14612.html Gonzalo On Fri, Jun 17, 2011 at 3:36 PM, Martin Abente martin.abente.lah...@gmail.com wrote: Actually, I have been

Re: [Sugar-devel] FUSE for Journal?

2011-06-17 Thread Martin Abente
Not 100% sure, but the conditions changed a little bit since then: * The journal integrates a better with external storage devices. * There are good bindings for fuse (even in python). I think that a fuse-based-network-file-system could be a pretty flexible and valid option for entry-level

Re: [Sugar-devel] FUSE for Journal?

2011-06-17 Thread Sascha Silbe
Excerpts from Sameer Verma's message of Fri Jun 17 20:27:46 +0200 2011: I've been messing with FUSE (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Filesystem_in_Userspace) in another context (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tahoe_Least-Authority_Filesystem) and was wondering if the Sugar Journal would talk to

Re: [Sugar-devel] FUSE for Journal?

2011-06-17 Thread Martin Dengler
On Fri, Jun 17, 2011 at 09:58:33PM +0200, Sascha Silbe wrote: Please give datastore-fuse [1] a try. Besides Sugar it needs just python-fuse = 0.2. I've mentioned this project both on sugar-devel and on IRC several times, but got no feedback from anyone who tried it. datastore-fuse is great. I

Re: [Sugar-devel] FUSE for Journal?

2011-06-17 Thread Sameer Verma
On Fri, Jun 17, 2011 at 11:36 AM, Martin Abente martin.abente.lah...@gmail.com wrote: Actually, I have been playing with it in the last 2 days. What I am basically doing (as a proof on concept) is a xmlrpc-FUSE filesystem. Since FUSE provides a native FS interaction there is nothing special to