On Tue, 2004-10-19 at 11:41, Federico Sacerdoti wrote:
> Isn't group an inner-space name? In your scheme it would be:
>
> /{country/China/}group/
oops. yes... that's right. rebuttal to rebuttal to follow.
> (you wrote {group above). In my suggestion it would be:
>
> /Country=China/group=/
i want the ganglia file/directory structure to be able to be implemented
with a traditional filesystem as well. i could see in the future people
writing their own implementations or partial implementations.
the problem with the approach you outlined above is that it won't map to
a "real" filesystem. when i request
/Country=China/group=/
i should get a list of all metric groups attached to China... but those
groups are siblings of "group=" and not children. for example,
/Country=China/group=cpu/
/Country=China/group=load/
/Country=China/group=memory/
/Country=China/group=disk/
are all siblings.. not children.
with my scheme, we can use a simple unix filesystem with the different
classes tucked away in special directories (that are only special in
name alone... starting with a non-alphanumeric character).
/.country/China/_group/
would simply return the contents of that directory which are all the
groups attached to the country China.
-matt
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