quick summary: he's mad.
"John P. Looney" burst across the net:
>On Thu, Jun 17, 1999 at 04:24:43PM +0100, kevin lyda mentioned:
> At first, I want a fsdb daemon would running from cron, doing something
>like locate. Say, every day. Then, you can do simple SQL style queries on
>the metadata, names, sizes, permissions (want to find all the setuid/gid
>progs on the system - takes 3 seconds on a system with 15,000 files).
but *why*?
>% mkdir wavs ; cd wavs
>% ln -s `dbquery --list name=\*.wav` .
>> And then, all your wav files would be in the current directory.
i see this, and that's why locate exists.
> Eventually, I want VFS hooks that update the SQL database every so often,
>telling it when new files are created & stuff. I'm kinda scared about doing
>stuff like this - I am stored atimes and mtimes - so this could slow things
>down a lot (though there shouldn't be a problem buffering it - after all,
>we don't mind if the fsdb is lost in a crash).
then you'd have to rebuild it. and how to you tell a filesystem to
cache - and where? is it a mount option, or something in /proc?
> With this, and the VFS to DB link there, I could add stuff like
>automounting a directory, based on SQL Views. "Make up a directory with all
>my C code in it, and mount it on ~/code/c" etc.
augh!
> You know the way that Win95 has a "recent documents" list - imagine if you
>had a directory of .txt files that were owned by you, and written to less
>than a day ago !
yeah, but it's not built into the os! this is a gnome or gtk level
thing. i'd rather have the open file widget recording each open
since it could also record what app did it, etc.
> I don't think it'll take much of a hit - apart from when it's doing the
>complete sync of the database. Though some kernel side stuff would scare
>me...
i don't want to rain on any parades. i still think writing an emacs
distribution would be fun - or even worse a linux distribution done
entirely with intercal (http://www.muppetlabs.com/~breadbox/intercal-man/)
- now that would be a cryptic os! but i really don't think this
would be received well on linux-kernel.
> Cool...now how the fuck to implement that logic...
the find source?
kevin
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