[ros-dev] Symbolic Links

[David Hinz]

Why should I implement a service that provides me a db if I could just 
use the registry, that works perfectly?
This service would make sense if we would use it for other purposes like 
additional informations about files and so on, but I think my idea is 
much more easier to implement.
I don't say, it's the best for the future, but it is capable of what I 
want it to be, doesn't need many resources and adds a nice feature to 
ROS, NT was always lacking.
And I don't want to wait until an NTFS port comes into works, because 
that might be in 3 or 4 years and who knows what filesystems we are 
using then... maybe already our own, created by Hans Reiser, because I 
hates Linus Torvalds for not integrating Reiser4 into the Linux kernel 
and wants revenge... who knows, but such a FS would be very fast...
Enough ot...

What I wanted to say is, I want ROS to be capable of symlinks and this 
completely independent of the FS it is using.
I think theres no need to implement this into the FS, maybe wo could 
write a backup of these regkeys to the harddisk, so they can be imported 
into other ROS-installations, but that's not that important now.

Greets,

David Hinz

Rick Langschultz schrieb:

> Why not include a system service that implements a metadata server to 
> create the symlinks for you. It would be simple to do with a sleepycat 
> db or embedded mysql engine. Of course the links would have to be 
> accessible by other processes and applications to be add to the whole 
> experience. Or wait until an NTFS port comes into works and then 
> implement symlinks then... Either way they are going to have to be 
> written into the filesystem one way or the other.
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