[Ros-talk] URL, IOSlaves and User Root Directory

[T. Onoma]

> How to keep track of file resources is an open question?

On Amiga, this is done with a separate .info file for every other kind of 
file. I never much liked having all those .info files cluttering up my 
directories, but it certainly works very well, and so this approach is worth 
a recommendation. (there are ways to hide those files of course)

The other approach is using only file systems that support arbitrary file 
resources, known as meta-information in file system terminology. Reiser4 is a 
good example of such an fs. At the moment few file systems systems employ 
this, but unless relational databases become the new basis of all file 
storage (see below), I'm pretty sure meta-info will become a standard in a 
few short years (they'll have to to remain competitive).

Still others are working to turn the file system into a relational database 
all together (WinFS, GNU Storage, etc.), which addresses many of the same 
issues, and adds SQL queries into the mix, but is a much more complicated 
approach.

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T.