Re: ReConfigurable Directory Structure & Agrregation of files according to semantic.

[Hans Reiser <reiser@namesys.com>]

Namesys is going to implement a semi-structured data  query language in 
the fs for version 6.  You should take a look at it at 
www.namesys.com/whitepaper.html, as there are definite reasons to go 
beyond the relational model.



faraz ahmed wrote:

>Hi Isaac;
>         The user space implementation u are talking
>about has to be done for each file type seperately.
>Example the Winamp playlist can only organize mp3's
>wherelese our FS can aggregate any type of data
>becuase  each file has attribs (name,value pairs) .
>And the directory listing is done acc Relational
>queryies on these attributes.
>          Anyways the Winamp playlist can only be used
>by winamp & other application have no way to use the
>files organized in a playlist. Where as in our case
>the 
>aggregation is done by the file system, so all apps 
>can use the organization without change.
>          Exactly we do our processing in the user
>space & just display the results under the FS.(Micro
>kernel sorts of)
>                                Regards.
>                                 Faraz.
>
>  
>


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Hans