very simple datastore reimplementation

Tomeu Vizoso tomeu at tomeuvizoso.net
Wed May 7 11:41:48 EDT 2008


On Wed, May 7, 2008 at 11:33 AM, Jim Gettys <jg at laptop.org> wrote:
> Please remember of the need for file names in the on disk structure
>  being human readable.  The need for interoperability (not just with
>  Sugar) is key.  This wasn't quite clear in your discussion.

I was thinking about this at this item:

> - Expose the files with a human readable name, for legacy apps and
> maybe for backups? Using a FUSE plugin?

But I was intending to use the uid in the internal, private file
structure as it will be more robust.

A FUSE plugin may provide a POSIX API similar to the one in olpcfs,
would this be enough to fulfill this concern?

Thanks,

Tomeu



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