[plug] Database Filesystems - Linux?

[Brad Campbell]

Timothy White wrote:
> After having read about longhorns database system I started to see areas 
> it could be come very useful.
> 
> My currently biggest use for a filesystem like that is with my photo 
> collection. I currently have all my photos in subdirectorys with meaning 
> full names, although the photos retain there original names. Some of the 
> subdirectorys group more subdirectorys, e.g. School, Family...
> 
> What I would really like is a way to ask for all photos fitting a 
> criteria without having to store the photos in a special way.
> So in english, I want to be able to keep storing my photos how I am now 
> storing them, but add meta data (stored in each photo or externally) so 
> that I can ask for all photos fitting my search.
> 
> For example. I have just come back from leavers and half my photos are 
> my friends the other half is sunsets (very nice) and clouds. I want to 
> store them in a folder called 'Leavers' in a subfolder [of the main 
> photo folder] named 'Year 12'.
> Then when I want to show people my leavers photos I just go to that 
> folder or do a search on leavers. If I want to show people sunsets I 
> search for all photos in the category sunset and it shows all sunset 

mv photo1.jpg leavers-sunset.jpg
mv photo2.jpg leavers.jpg
mv photo3.jpg sunset.jpg.

find ~/photos -iname "*sunset*"
fine ~/photos -iname "*leavers*"

:p)

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Brad
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