very simple datastore reimplementation

[Marco Pesenti Gritti]

On Thu, May 8, 2008 at 4:22 PM, Jim Gettys <jg at laptop.org> wrote:
> On Thu, 2008-05-08 at 16:06 +0200, Tomeu Vizoso wrote:
>  > On 5/8/08, Jim Gettys <jg at laptop.org> wrote:
>  > > On Thu, 2008-05-08 at 13:09 +0000, Tomeu Vizoso wrote:
>  > >
>  > > > I'm having trouble understanding what you are requesting and what
>  > > > could be done about that.
>  > > >
>  > > > Can you please enumerate the requirements that affect the internal
>  > > > file layout and any other view that we may be able to provide?
>  > >
>  > > That there is *some* hope of finding a file by a human in a raw file
>  > > system, that can be done with software already present on the system....
>  >
>  > With the proposed metadata text file, there's already that hope. You
>  > think it's not enough and you may very well be right. What I'm asking
>  > is: how big an effort are we willing to devote to this and until which
>  > point we want to compromise on robustness and simplicity?
>
>  Until we know what the tradeoffs really are, we need to explore in this
>  direction.  Names only as hashes has proved to be a major headache in
>  practice in the field.

That's true. But I also think the FUSE layer will make a big
difference in this regard, at the point that it *might* be enough.

I agree anyway that more transparency at the raw file system level
would be desiderable and that we should figure out what are exactly
the tradeoffs there.

Marco