From kde-devel  Sat Sep 06 20:53:39 2003
From: "Gary L. Greene, Jr." <greeneg () arklinux ! org>
Date: Sat, 06 Sep 2003 20:53:39 +0000
To: kde-devel
Subject: Re: Storage implementation in KDE
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On Saturday 06 September 2003 03:41 pm, David wrote:
> Brian Ledbetter wrote:
> > Would anyone else be interested in creating something like this for
> > KDE?  I think that something like this could be invaluable for
> > enhancing KDE's reputation as a serious professional desktop
> > solution.  I certainly think we can make the user interface
> > second-to-none!  :)
>
> It's an interesting concept, and it should not be excluded from the KDE
> options going forward. But I seriously question its usability in
> practice. For certain filesystems or directories it may make sense
> (50,000 mp3 files), but in the general case it would provide little
> benefit.
>
> Someone has to categorize these files. If the user isn't already
> categorizing their files, a system that expects them to do so every time
> a file is created or aquired isn't going to help.
>
> I think a better way to approach this is mapping a filesystem API on top
> of a traditional database. A dbfs in other words. The latter has the
> advantage of categorizing your mp3 collection without being intrusive.
> It could also be compatible with storage, should that be necessary.
> (heck, what we really need are OS/2 HPFS metadata attributes).
>
> David Johnson

You're thinking about BeOS' version 2 Filesystem. but...
That's what EA's are for. These are in SGI's XFS, and soon in the Linux 2.6 
kernel for _all_ native filesystems. 

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