Date: Sun, 4 May 2008 16:01:31 +0200 From: Thierry Thomas <thierry@FreeBSD.org> To: Rahul Siddharthan <rsidd@online.fr> Cc: "Jason C. Wells" <jcw@highperformance.net>, fbsd_chat <freebsd-chat@freebsd.org>, Roopinder Singh <rs@midearth.co.uk> Subject: Re: Tired of Hierarchies Message-ID: <20080504140131.GE57012@graf.pompo.net> In-Reply-To: <6a506d980805040649k4d4e8174nb74256776db592c3@mail.gmail.com> References: <481CE0E7.7070900@highperformance.net> <6a506d980805040324k4b9cd9f8y2b75fd47781dbdfa@mail.gmail.com> <54806.78.86.146.100.1209903304.squirrel@secure.duzle.com> <6a506d980805040649k4d4e8174nb74256776db592c3@mail.gmail.com>
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Le Dim 4 mai 08 à 15:49:26 +0200, Rahul Siddharthan <rsidd@online.fr> écrivait : > On Sun, May 4, 2008 at 5:45 PM, Roopinder Singh <rs@midearth.co.uk> wrote: > > 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 > > Well, Beagle tries to spare you the trouble of doing metadata by looking inside > the files... and it handles directory trees fine. If you want to do what Jason > suggests -- dump everything in a single directory (like a single library room) > and depend on metadata and indexing to find what you want, Beagle would be > overkill... Maybe not Beagle, but Eaglemode, without B? <http://eaglemode.sourceforge.net/screenshots.html>; -- Th. Thomas.
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