FSter

Guglielmo’s Hyper File System
FSter is a virtual file system implementation (here some considerations) based on Fuse technology and exploiting Tracker metadata technology to allow access to files according to the metadata they’re associated to.

In practice, FSter enables scenarios such as the following ones:

• browsing the content of a drive (or simply of a folder) according to a user-defined hierarchy or progression of filter based on metadata
  
• associating metadata to files whenever operations are performed on them. For example, copying or saving a file in a specific place means storing it along with a description (metadata)
  
• generating “virtual” files from metadata, e.g., a vCard file that is not really on the file system, but dynamically built from metadata

Let’s start using FSter

Updates

These are our latest updates:

• 2010 01 15: Published deb and ebuild packages
  
• 2010 01 12: Tagged release 0.1
  
• 2010 01 08: Published the source code
  
• 2010 01 07: Published the FSter Media Library use case

Use cases

This are the latest published complete xml examples:

• FSter Media Library
  The configuration permits you to navigate and use media files, that you have on your harddisk, organized by images, audio and video
  
• FSter Music Library
  The configuration permits you to navigate and use music files, that you have on you harddisk, organized by artist, album or genre.

Here the complete list of the use cases

Trouble?

If you have read all the documentation but you are still in trouble,
try reading the FSter FAQ
or contact us:

• on the Mailinglist at lists.itsme.it
  
• on the IRC channel #itsme-dev on irc.freenode.net

or try looking in the Bugtracker at bugs.itsme.it