From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: David Masover Subject: Re: Apple OS X Tiger adds arbitrary metadata support Date: Fri, 29 Apr 2005 13:11:52 -0500 Message-ID: <427278E8.9080905@slaphack.com> References: <87mzrhpn0f.fsf@evinrude.uhoreg.ca> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: list-help: list-unsubscribe: list-post: Errors-To: flx@namesys.com In-Reply-To: <87mzrhpn0f.fsf@evinrude.uhoreg.ca> List-Id: Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" To: Hubert Chan Cc: reiserfs-list@namesys.com -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 They've also added support for one of the main features we were talking about with our plugins/metadata: instantaneous, up-to-date searches. Basically, they catch any modification to the FS and pass it on to the search feature, which indexes only what has been changed. Then, all open "search folders" are automagically updated. Any new search is lightning-fast, but no matter when the search is run, it's automatically up-to-date. This gives me a bit of deja-vu, because the way users will be treating their data now sounds a bit like one of the more database-like features of reiser's "future vision" paper. It amounts to one of gmail's slogans: Search, don't sort. Why have a folder hierarchy at all, and go to the trouble of setting up and sorting such a tree, when you can have the OS automatically sort things into "folders" based on what you need at the time? -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.1 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Thunderbird - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iQIVAwUBQnJ453gHNmZLgCUhAQIopQ//ToeyM5y3wGfr+2OvjJShsdCKkzAIbVHL f5VwYlk4b5/n6YkpyXHzYEZGE9AsuDlaVv+XgyjUYGYqH9IWsrEqCwYE2cck6RSa eJaRuHR8FMokNWm2sgJ7D2py21tq3eO8BBI76gIgGHpG4DgCcR5jLuiD1ayueu6V 8ipzLBajGOQQmWCLjzRrODSv4m0w/uy/dT7uEtw4d9NhO2iYwh8hjCY4+5oIVB6k 6T+CNBDALELR73vwGo7j86PeBILpkFXALBHdJUVQADI2RxXpCsI/BS4/mBH/ua7B lcOkF5w+DXdoXo6ni4DVjo+2dLhHImrN5fxwIH6jlvqeq+VkBVTA6sakpaZ7Dbiu emjEgBr0ZpMaa6fZvHR2/4h6F5/gO14t/2Z+e33IDSqGtZSsgRnRnjUyXFcB6i0D 5BUX7XUeGNIf0wP+Py6nRgsGTTOusSZZCqmYJpzW1aIJ9Fi2L8Aw1LqnaQlWGwbr pca06RZwkMExZ+SDNEfoGiS/HENlq1cBb8XwlKLYE7PeDOKo5y3eHuIK7n2/iL5L UxSOODI4aqgbFs6DNyorm07Mi322N1hUC7+ojLDQPtlc+gnFVZQJUZ+qokRtdZyw Mm4Thfi3ic1Q3EbY3y9iHS7d24kdbRGLsonLuWYwFxlOyUEjRuv36AtbX2yzoXV4 wttlRGl1jbw= =V2X2 -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----