Tired of Hierarchies

[Roopinder Singh]

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 at midearth.co.uk