'Storage' to Replace Traditional Filesystems?

JigSaw writes "OSNews is reporting on Storage, an innovative project which aims to replace the traditional hierarchical filesystems with a new document store which is database-based (PostgreSQL). The current implementation, built under Gnome 2.x for now, offers natural language access, network transparency, and a number of other features. The project is currently in alpha (screenshots already available), and it is part of the next major generation of Gnome. It is currently developed by Seth Nickell, the person responsible for the enhanced Gnome usability on 2.x and its HIG, among other things."

Comments

Replacement for ls

[Anonymous Coward]

SELECT * FROM MY_FILES

Re:Replacement for ls

[Mwongozi]

SELECT * FROM Users WHERE Clue > 0
0 rows returned

Ah, humour.

Re:Replacement for ls

[sharkey]

SELECT * FROM MY_FILES
WHERE TYPE = 'video/x-mpeg'
AND TITLE IS LIKE ('*tit*, *blonde*)
ORDER BY PERV_RANK

Re:How does the metadata get into the database?

[henbane]

"It's like CD collections, or books; libraries have nicely catalogued and ordered collections. Private individuals don't; they have roughly ordered collections on the shelf, and don't bother keeping them in any better order"

Call yourself a geek? How can you possibly but something on a shelf without first checking to see that it's in a proper place observing the subtle cross reference system that backs up the obvious system. Man, I hate it when people move my stuff.

Random thought for the day...

[fluxrad]

Am I the only one that isn't totally into the idea of "googling" data on my hard drive?

Granted, it's mostly pr0n on there, so it's almost the same thing, but still...

Re:Windows?

[Anonymous Coward]

SELECT * FROM videos WHERE name LIKE '%porn%'

Re:Windows' filesystem

[simonecaldana]

> The filesystem will be based on SQL Server 2003, but it won't be a fully functional version of SQL Server.

you mean it will be a standard version of SQL server? :)