[redland-dev] developerWorks article

Edd Dumbill edd at usefulinc.com
Mon Jul 28 22:12:16 BST 2003


On Mon, 2003-07-28 at 10:52, Miguel Branco wrote:
> So, just wondering, do you think it's viable to build a distributed 
> "file system" using the concepts you describe? Actually, it's not (just) 
> a file system because each file or set of files has huge amounts of 
> metadata associated to it.

To be honest, I can't say I've give it much thought.  It's certainly
something I think I would like to build, and a worthwhile research
activity.  (As long as you don't intend hierarchies to be part of the
file system, I hate them!)

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