I think metatracker is another implementation of tagging? It apparently has no problem with scalability. http://freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/Tracker
Here's an discussion on tagged filesystems in linux: http://digg.com/linux_unix/WinFS-like_Storage_for_Linux and GLScube: http://www.glscube.org/ Benedikt Meurer wrote: > Erlend Davidson wrote: > >>> PS: I've also an 5-month old patch to add leaftag support, which I could >>> update to the latest Thunar version with some effort, if there's >>> interest (would add a 'tag:' filesystem with the list of current tags, >>> and a list of files for each tag). The idea was to replace the >>> emblem-mechanism with tags (tags have an associated image). In general I >>> think this would be very useful, but unfortunately leaftag doesn't scale >>> very well (as mentioned before) and it seems that leaftag is mostly dead >>> (nearly no SVN activity). >>> >> Would the Leaftag functionality be a plugin, so that the slow-down is >> optional? Looking at the Leaftag blog >> (http://www.chipx86.com/blog/tag/leaftag) the developer mentions (in >> Feburary) lack of time and moving Leaftag to a dedicated server - AFAIK >> it hasn't happened yet. >> > > As botsie said, a relational database is probably not the way to address > this problem, or atleast SQLite 2.x is not. It works fine as long as the > number of tags and sources is below 500 or so, but even then, because > the sources have to be matched by their URIs, the folder loading will be > slower when locating the emblems for each file. > > Storing the tags in extended attributes would solve this issue with > modern file systems (note that not all file systems offer fast extattr > access), but it does not allow to query the files by tag. > > >> The slow-down with scaling is a real pity - a tagging filesystem would >> be excellent for linux. >> > > Well, not only for Linux... > > Benedikt > _______________________________________________ > Thunar-dev mailing list > [email protected] > http://foo-projects.org/mailman/listinfo/thunar-dev > _______________________________________________ Thunar-dev mailing list [email protected] http://foo-projects.org/mailman/listinfo/thunar-dev
