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| Developer(s) | Tx0 <tx0@strumentiresistenti.org> |
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| Stable release | 0.6 |
| Written in | C |
| Operating system | Linux kernel |
| Available in | English |
| Type | Semantic file system |
| License | GNU GPL |
| Website | http://www.tagsistant.net/ |
| Developer(s) | Tx0 |
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Tagsistant is a semantic file system for the Linux kernel, written in C and based on FUSE. Unlike traditional file systems that use hierarchies of directories to locate objects, Tagsistant introduces the concept of tags.
In computing, a file system is a type of data store which could be used to store, retrieve and update files. Each file can be uniquely located by its path. The user must know the path in advance to access a file and the path does not necessarily include any information about the content of the file.
Tagsistant uses a complementary approach based on tags. The user can create a set of tags and apply those tags to files, directories and other objects (devices, pipes, ...). The user can then search all the objects that match a subset of tags, called a query. This kind of approach is well suited for managing user contents like pictures, audio recordings, movies and text documents but is incompatible with system files (like libraries, commands and configurations) where the univocity of the path is a security requirement to prevent the access to a wrong content.
A Tagsistant file system features four main directories:
Tags are created as sub directories of the tags/ directory and can be used in queries complying to this syntax:
tags/subquery/[+/subquery/[+/subquery/]]/@/ [1] where a subquery is an unlimited list of tags, concatenated as directories:
tag1/tag2/tag3/.../tagN/The portion of a path delimited by tags/ and @/ is the actual query. The +/ operator joins the results of different sub-queries in one single list. The @/ operator ends the query.
To be returned as a result of the following query:
tags/t1/t2/+/t1/t4/@/an object must be tagged as both t1/ and t2/ or as both t1/ and t4/. Any object tagged as t2/ or t4/, but not as t1/ will not be retrieved.
The query syntax deliberately violates the POSIX file system semantics by allowing a path token to be a descendant of itself, like in tags/t1/t2/+/t1/t4/@ where t1/ appears twice. As a consequence a recursive scan of a Tagsistant file system will exit with an error or endlessly loop, as done by UNIX find :
~/tagsistant_mountpoint$ find tags/ tags/ tags/document tags/document/+ tags/document/+/document tags/document/+/document/+ tags/document/+/document/+/document tags/document/+/document/+/document/+ [...]This drawback is balanced by the possibility to list the tags inside a query in any order. The query tags/t1/t2/@/ is completely equivalent to tags/t2/t1/@/ and tags/t1/+/t2/t3/@/ is equivalent to tags/t2/t3/+/t1/@/.
The @/ element has the precise purpose of restoring the POSIX semantics: the path tags/t1/@/directory/ refers to a traditional directory and a recursive scan of this path will properly perform.
Tagsistant features a simple reasoner which expands the results of a query by including objects tagged with related tags. A relation between two tags can be established inside the relations/ directory following a three level pattern:
relations/tag1/rel/tag2/The rel element can be includes or is_equivalent. To include the rock tag in the music tag, the UNIX command mkdir can be used:
mkdir -p relations/music/includes/rockThe reasoner can recursively resolve relations, allowing the creation of complex structures:
mkdir -p relations/music/includes/rockmkdir -p relations/rock/includes/hard_rockmkdir -p relations/rock/includes/grungemkdir -p relations/rock/includes/heavy_metalmkdir -p relations/heavy_metal/includes/speed_metalThe web of relations created inside the relations/ directory constitutes a basic form of ontology.
Tagsistant features an autotagging plugin stack which gets called when a file or a symlink is written. [2] Each plugin is called if its declared MIME type matches
The list of working plugins released with Tagsistant 0.6 is limited to:
<title> and <keywords> elements and with document, webpage and html tooEach Tagsistant file system has a corresponding repository containing an archive/ directory where the objects are actually saved and a tags.sql file holding tagging information as an SQLite database. If the MySQL database engine was specified with the --db argument, the tags.sql file will be empty. Another file named repository.ini is a GLib ini store with the repository configuration. [3]
Tagsistant 0.6 is compatible with the MySQL and Sqlite dialects of SQL for tag reasoning and tagging resolution. While porting its logic to other SQL dialects is possible, differences in basic constructs (especially the INTERSECT SQL keyword) must be considered.
The archive/ directory has been introduced to provide a quick way to access objects without using tags. Objects are listed with their inode number prefixed. [4]
The stats/ directory features some read-only files containing usage statistics. A file configuration holds both compile time information and current repository configuration.
It has been highlighted that relying on an external database to store tags and tagging information could cause the complete loss of metadata if the database gets corrupted. [5]
It has been highlighted that using a flat namespace tends to overcrowd the tags/ directory. [6] This could be mitigated introducing triple tags.
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