Re: hard drive indexing and realtime searching
On Mon, 21 Feb 2005, Alex Malinovich wrote:
What it sounds like you're referring to with the mention of Longhorn and
OS 10.4, however, is some of the meta-data functionality that they're
working on building in. So that a file would not only have a name and a
date associated with it, but user-defined meta-data as well. Then you
could just do a search for all of your "family documents" for example,
and you'd get a listing of all files which match that description,
regardless of the filename and location.
This really sounds like something the extended attributes in XFS could do
easily. XFS has had these as long as it has been around (and since XFS
v1.1 in Linux IIRC).
This is essentially what's being worked on for ReiserFS 4. Personally, I
My take on Hans Reiser's philosophy on this is that he strongly feels the
divide between a database and a filesystem is a bit arbitrary and he wants
to show that "crossing the divide" can be done without killing
performance. They are doing some interesting stuff.
Rob
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