very simple datastore reimplementation

[Martin Langhoff]

On Wed, May 14, 2008 at 12:45 PM,  <david at lang.hm> wrote:
>  if we put everything into a library, then all tools that access the
> datastore need to use that library.

All we need is to state a simple enough convention ("put your files in
*this* subdirectory"), and handle metadata from the journal.

>  if we put that same functionality into FUSE then normal tools do not need
> to be modified at all to access the files.

If we use FUSE, we also have to get the app to put the files in a
given subdirectory. And we also have to handle the metadata outside
(unless we chance the app).

>From Olpcfs's document we do win some versioning, but with some
experience in SCMs I seriously think all we need is versioning on app
exit, which we can do outside. If we really want to be hanging there
on each close() we can use inotify() and friends, but you don't want
to see what apps do to files to _that_ granularity. Really. Ever.

cheers,


m
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