Proposals

libferris: everything is a filesystem, and filesystems are everything.

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BoF
60 minute BoF
Scheduled: Thursday, November 4, 2010 from 9:00 – 10:00am in Thomas Paine

One Line Summary

Libferris makes local and remote data available as a filesystem and conversely can be accessed from SQLite and XQuery among others as their native data types.

Abstract

Libferris is a virtual filesystem that provides a filesystem and metadata (EA) interface to multiple data sources including Web sites. Recently libferris has gained more ways to expose itself including to XQuery, as SQLite virtual tables, RDF, virtual DOM, and FUSE.

The combination of Web as a filesystem and exposing the filesystem to many systems hopefully makes aspects of libferris interesting to various communities. This is an area that I would like to discuss at Linux Plumbers with developers who are more expert on systems which could interact with libferris.

My talk idea is on examples of libferris usage with an eye toward doing strange and also useful things leveraging libferris. For example, mounting apache log files and combining that with information from relational databases to generate time keyed KML files to show Web hits with Google Earth. Or mounting google spreadsheets and showing changes using KDE4 plasmoids.

I have presented libferris at LCA 2002, the Linux Kongress 2005 & 08, OLS 2007, NLUUG storage conference 2009, UKUUG spring conference 2010, and others.

Tags

filesystem, libferris, metadata, rdf, sqlite, web services

Speaker

  • Ben Martin

    freelance

    Biography

    I have a BIT, MIT and PhD in computer science. My PhD is about search spaces, filesystems, and finite lattices. In simple terms — desktop search that doesn’t suck.

    I have presented libferris at LCA 2002, the Linux Kongress 2005 & 08, OLS 2007, NLUUG storage conference 2009, UKUUG spring conference 2010, and others.

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