ANN: pythonfs - create linux filesystems in python

Mike Rovner mike at nospam.com
Tue Dec 9 13:51:33 EST 2003


Nick Vargish wrote:

> Rene Pijlman <reply.in.the.newsgroup at my.address.is.invalid> writes:
>> Serious question: why?
>
> How about providing a selection of ways of accessing an mp3
> collection? At the top level you could have /artist, /album, /genre,
> /year...

It reminds me of Microsoft's promise to combine RDBMS and file system in a
new Longhorn OS. Several years ago that idea was highly popular but nothing
came out.

That approach may be very interesting to allow user to use some plug-ins for
the file system
(access, security, notification, etc.).

Mike








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