From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S269265AbUHZR1U (ORCPT ); Thu, 26 Aug 2004 13:27:20 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S269261AbUHZRZg (ORCPT ); Thu, 26 Aug 2004 13:25:36 -0400 Received: from mail.shareable.org ([81.29.64.88]:42438 "EHLO mail.shareable.org") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S269265AbUHZRWe (ORCPT ); Thu, 26 Aug 2004 13:22:34 -0400 Date: Thu, 26 Aug 2004 18:22:21 +0100 From: Jamie Lokier To: Christophe Saout Cc: Will Dyson , Hans Reiser , Andrew Morton , hch@lst.de, linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, flx@namesys.com, torvalds@osdl.org, reiserfs-list@namesys.com Subject: Re: silent semantic changes with reiser4 Message-ID: <20040826172221.GQ5733@mail.shareable.org> References: <20040824202521.GA26705@lst.de> <412CEE38.1080707@namesys.com> <20040825152805.45a1ce64.akpm@osdl.org> <412D9FE6.9050307@namesys.com> <412E10A2.1020801@pobox.com> <1093538653.5482.21.camel@leto.cs.pocnet.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <1093538653.5482.21.camel@leto.cs.pocnet.net> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.1i Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Christophe Saout wrote: > echo linux > file.bla/keywords/topic > > The filesystem might then automatically put these keywords into an index > and then provide a search mechanism elsewhere where it could ask "find > me all dentries with the keyword 'linux'." and it would return a list > like locate does. Only that it's in realtime and also works when moving > the file around (but not when copying with an unaware program for > obvious reasons). It could work even when copying with an unaware program - provided the're a tool which knows to extract metadata from files where that hasn't been done already, or where the file's been modified. -- Jamie