Subject: Re: Filesystem using tags, not folders?
To: None <current-users@NetBSD.org>
From: Marcin Jessa <lists@yazzy.org>
List: current-users
Date: 06/12/2006 17:07:58
On Mon, 12 Jun 2006 16:51:43 +0200
Lubomir Sedlacik <salo@Xtrmntr.org> wrote:

> On Mon, Jun 12, 2006 at 10:43:33AM -0400, oliver gould wrote:
> > On Mon, Jun 12, 2006 at 10:18:46, Chris Tribo wrote:
> > > There's also Apple's SpotLight API which accomplishes nearly the
> > > same  thing without adding much more complexity to the file system
> > > code.
> > 
> > And, while we're at it, (the mythical) WinFS is based on a
> > relational database that could presumably be queried as such - due
> > out sometime this millennium.
> 
> see also BFS (the Be File System, from BeOS), its support for indexing
> and query interface:
> 
>  http://www.letterp.com/~dbg/practical-file-system-design.pdf
 
Isn't that what SkyOS (skyos.org) uses?
AFAIR it requests for initial indexing at the first boot and I know
they use the FS from openbeos.

Marcin.