Some filesystem thoughts

[Ronald Klop]

On Sun, 24 Feb 2013 11:54:34 +0100, Radio młodych bandytów  
<radiomlodychbandytow at o2.pl> wrote:

> "Ronald Klop" <ronald-freebsd8 at klop.yi.org> wrote:
>> Creative ideas.
>> Part of what you want is in fusefs (mounting of files to edit their
>> content).
> Mhm. Could you give some link or details in another form?

Just google for 'fusefs'.
Filesystems based on FUSE:
http://sourceforge.net/apps/mediawiki/fuse/index.php?title=FileSystems

> And part is implemented in e.g. KDE (integrated support for
>> various file types in fulltext search and tagging of files/metadata,  
>> etc.).
> Well, I view it as not much different from implementing a TC / MC / VIM  
> plugin. Anybody can benefit, but they have to implement the right API  
> (And there are several programs that use TC plugins).
> It's interesting as a way of getting some of these benefits though.
>
>> The chances of having all these complex libraries integrated in the
>> FreeBSD OS are close to zero I presume. But I am not in a position to
>> decide about that.
> Frankly, I haven't expected anything different. My thoughts did jump to  
> implementation issues and I see them numerous, but I think the idea  
> itself is not sufficiently mature, so I decided to skip them in the  
> first post.
>
>> I think you can't expect the OS to serve everybody's detailed wishes.
> I don't expect it. I just wanted to discuss an idea that seemed to have  
> a potential.
>> The OS serves files and user programs know what to do with them.
> Unfortunately, far too often programs don't know it. Files are often not  
> simple and a single program is unable to deal with them. The only way to  
> deal with such cases ATM that I see is to manually remove layers  
> obfuscating the meaningful sources. In some way, it resembles piping  
> data through multiple programs, except that pipes transport bytes, not  
> files and therefore the transformation has to be performed step by step.

Well. It is probably me, but I don't really get what you're trying to say  
here.

Regards,
Ronald.