[ILUG] Longhorn

[Michael Thompson]

On 6/1/05, CP Hennessy <cp.hennessy at openapp.biz> wrote:
> 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.

What I want is a kernel module that filters all the files in /music so
that I can find thes same files under these paths simultaneously

/music/artist/cold play 
/music/album/x&y  
/music/artist/coldplay/album/x&y 

This should be more usefull that using beagle as any application get
make use of it.

It looks like http://www.irisa.fr/LIS/LISFS/ might do this but I
haven't downloaded it yet.