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Re: file as a directory
- From: Tomasz Torcz <zdzichu@xxxxxx>
- Date: Sat, 27 Nov 2004 12:50:38 +0100
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On Wed, Nov 24, 2004 at 09:16:03AM +0000, Peter Foldiak wrote:
> So if you have a file named "/home/peter/book", you should be able to
> look at its Introduction as "/home/peter/book/Introduction" or chapter
> 3, paragraph 2 as
> /home/peter/book/chapter[3]/paragraph[2]
>
> In this case you could use
> /home/peter/book/chapter[3]/paragraph[2]
> as a "real" file, read it, even edit it in a text editor. When you later
> look at the whole book as /home/peter/book , you should see your
> changes.
First, this kind of document storage needs extensive knowledge of
assocatied metadata and therefore is insuitable for kernel. It should be
done in userspace.
Second, it is beeing done in userspace - http://www.gnome.org/~seth/storage/ .
No need to reinvent the wheel.
--
Tomasz Torcz RIP is irrevelant. Spoofing is futile.
zdzichu@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Your routes will be aggreggated. -- Alex Yuriev
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