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SenseFS requires 'rfuse-ng' rubygem

gem install rfuse-ng -v=0.4.0

SenseFs is toy-project and a naive approach to semantic filesystems. It was essentially inspired by Tx0's TagSistant project.

The main idea is that a file can exist at multiple locations... and as long as it is the same file, its metadata should be the same everywhere.

The other thing is that using a filesystem with semantic information should not require more than the usual filesystem-accessing tools (your favorite filemanager, command line or whatever).

• file storage
• support for simple tags
• tags should be accessible via xattr

== Storage of files

A file is a sequence of data "chunks" of (at most) a given size. Each one of these "chunks" is identified by a hash.

A file should keep a link to each of its references

mountpoint/ |- tags/ # where the tagging happens and can be queried |- archive/ # where all the objects are stored |- relations/ #

storage |-- files

• Tagsistant: http://www.tagsistant.net/
• TagFS: http://code.google.com/p/tagfs/