[plug] Database Filesystems - Linux? (offlist)

[Padraig MacIain]

Sorry this is offlist, but I got a new email address and havent gotten
around to my email address being resubscribed but i do get forwards
from my old address to the new one.


Anyhow, I wrote a web application a while ago to solve this very
problem. Its not state-of-the-art just yet (time constraints) but
it does more or less what you want to do.

If you want a tarball of it you are more than welcome to take
it and do stuff to it and make it more funky.

Padraig.


On Sat, Nov 27, 2004 at 03:28:35PM +0800, 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 
> photos (previously marked as sunsets by me) regardless of the folder 
> their are in. Then maybe I want burn photos of my friends to CD, I do a 
> search for friends and I can then burn all the photos to CD-ROM or save 
> them to a flash card. With this last task it would be nice if it could 
> retain the original directory structure or dump them all to once folder 
> depending on the users request.
> 
> If nobody knows of a system that will allow me to do this easily then it 
> will probably end up on my projects list (unless I get a real job.)
> 
> Thanks
> Tim
> p.s. If I find a viable solution I will post it on the list
> 
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