Date: Sun, 4 May 2008 13:15:04 +0100 (BST) From: "Roopinder Singh" <rs@midearth.co.uk> To: "Rahul Siddharthan" <rsidd@online.fr> Cc: "Jason C. Wells" <jcw@highperformance.net>, fbsd_chat <freebsd-chat@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Tired of Hierarchies Message-ID: <54806.78.86.146.100.1209903304.squirrel@secure.duzle.com> In-Reply-To: <6a506d980805040324k4b9cd9f8y2b75fd47781dbdfa@mail.gmail.com> References: <481CE0E7.7070900@highperformance.net> <6a506d980805040324k4b9cd9f8y2b75fd47781dbdfa@mail.gmail.com>
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On Sun, May 4, 2008 11:24 am, Rahul Siddharthan wrote: > If you want to index your files (metadata, or informative filenames, or > whatever) and dump them all in one directory, go ahead. Thinking about > a suitable indexing system is an exercise for the reader. (A non-trivial > exercise. Library indexing systems are still a topic of research; I > imagine > the complexity of indexing millions of items of entirely disparate kinds > of > data, such as a typical computer contains, would be phenomenal.) Doesn't Beagle do this exact thing ? Or, have I got it completely wrong ? http://beagle-project.org/Main_Page Roopinder Singh rs@midearth.co.uk
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