[Relfs-devel] metafs - ocamlfuse - delayed reply

[Vincenzo C. <vin...@ya...>]

Hi all - I was going to answer all the questions, and provide the ocaml port 
of relfs, and detailed installation instructions. However I am facing some 
difficulty so I won't delay replies any longer  :)

First of all, Peter, sorry for late reply: my laptop's hard drive broke badly 
last week. Luckily, I saved everything I needed but now that I have 
reinstalled a linux system and ocamlfuse and all the rest on my abandoned 
desktop, I realize that... I didn't backup my up-to-date relfs schema! This 
is not so bad but as you can imagine this will take some time. 

Regarding metafs, I have had a small chat with the metafs author, who has been 
very kind. We both have radically different ideas on the design, but I guess 
we will cooperate where possible (plugins?). Given the fact that both 
projects have the same chances to survive I think it's better to double these 
possibilites leaving the two projects separate as they are ;) 

For ocamlfuse, I'd have liked to publish a source snapshot today but the 
sf.net release system is absolutely not working since yesterday evening so as 
you can guess adding this problem to the broken disk made me totally upset - 
perhaps tomorrow will be a better day.

Regarding UUIDs, I think that since they are mostly useful when synchronizing 
relfs with other filesystems or backup copies of the data, they can be an 
attribute of objects which will however keep on having an "internal" to the 
db unique identity based on integers, which are faster to index and query. If 
you think that UUIDs should have greater importance, we can discuss it if you 
please.

I have much clearer ideas on what needs to be done - after putting the ocaml 
version on CVS together with installation instructions we will talk about 
that.

Bye

Vincenzo