Christian Stroetmann OntoLab <stroetmann <at> ontolab.com> writes: > > Dear Alli; > > On Sat, Apr 25, 2009 at 10:15 PM, Christian Stroetmann OntoLab > > <stroetmann <at> ontolab.com> wrote: > > > >> Dear Alli, > >> > >>> Well, as you noted at the end of your reply, it is polite to reply to > >>> answers. Maybe you can be the one to start. > >>> > >>> > >> What am I doing since months? > >> Hi guys, as an outsider let me try to explain what "OntoFS" is all about (from what I understood): what Christian with OntoLab and other companies or organizations are doing here is basic research and putting that research to practice: "OntoFS" shall become a kind of versioning file system (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Versioning_file_system) based on reiser4 (or another filesystem if it's not possible to use it). This in some way follows Hans' vision of developing a filesystem in which everything is a file and whose life can be tracked (to simplify it really roughly). On the other hand it shall also become an "ontological" filesystem (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ontology_%28information_science%29) with which files can be managed directly on the filesystem level. If I recall correctly another of Hans' visions was to use reiser4 as kind of database-filesystem which more and more today could become reality in association with ontology and the so-called semantic Web or (on a simpler level) semantic desktop (?) (see kde 4). In this regard reiser4' plugin architecture should be really helpful in order to add more and more functionality. DISCLAIMER: I'm not affiliated with ontolab and as an outsider my description doesn't necessarily have to describe the status or intentions of "OntoFS" accurately for more information have a look at: * https://picoforge.int-evry.fr/cgi-bin/twiki/view/Ontofs/Web/OntofsIntro (you can use translate.google.com to translate it into english from vietnamese) * http://www.eecs.harvard.edu/~syrah/pass/ * and the corresponding wikipedia entries about ontology, semantic web, etc. Greetings Mat -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe reiserfs-devel" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
