On Wednesday 01 June 2005 13:47, Bryan O'Donoghue wrote:
> Bernhard Rohrer wrote:
> > Longhorn is planning to give us tools for information organisation
> > beyond file system hierarchy. This is an imprtant step. Does anybody
> > know what the open source community plans in response?
> >
> > cheers
> >
> > Bernhard
>> Do you mean the abortive WinFS ?
>> My spider senses tell me ReiserFS (5?), will sing and dance just like
> WinFS.... expect you don't have to rely on Microsoft releasing bugfixes
> in 2-3 months for critical updates.
ReiserFS4 ( http://www.namesys.com ) has an infrastructure to add meta
data to the filesystem in what sounds like "funky" ways. I've not heard of
any implementations yet tho.
Maybe you'd consider beagle ( I think that it is a gnome project ).
However consider that adding meta data to files in your filesystem is only one
part of the problem, getting all of the apps to use this feature and getting
them to use it in a way you find useful is another problem completely.
CPH
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