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I thought this was something like a FUSE driver that would on-the-fly generate any file you tried to read, with some consistency. Like if you open stories/zombi
by Y_Y 1y ago
I thought this was something like a FUSE driver that would on-the-fly generate any file you tried to read, with some consistency. Like if you open stories/zombie-party.txt it will have some generative network make it, and cache it. If you later ask for stories/zombie-party.odt it can just do a conversion.
I vibe-coded a demo of such a thing, with the idea of making game assets like textures/outdoor/wall.jpg etc. You can do it easily enough, but you need to be patient, and not particularly discerning.
- raphman 1y agoFWIW, I wrote a small paper on this general topic a few years ago, collecting earlier work and own ideas. "Files as Directories: Some Thoughts on Accessing Structured Data within Files" https://dl.acm.org/doi/pdf/10.1145/3191697.3214323 https://dl.acm.org/doi/pdf/10.1145/3191697.3214323
- RetroTechie 1y agoSays "get access" with a "locked" icon. Is this paper freely available somewhere?
- kurtoid 1y agoHere: https://www.shift-society.org/salon/papers/2018/revised/files-as-directories.pdf https://www.shift-society.org/salon/papers/2018/revised/file... Link found here: https://scholar.google.com/scholar?cluster=14832107127874645421&hl=en&as_sdt=0,34 https://scholar.google.com/scholar?cluster=14832107127874645...
- raphman 1y agoThanks! Sorry - I didn't realize that the paper in the ACM DL is not open-access.
- grandslammer 1y agoi think we have some similar thoughts - i am working on a file format that accomplishes something like this
- quesera 1y agoI played with this idea for media servers. I want iTunes and Audiobookshelf and beets and Jellyfin, etc to all work on the same filesystem and media archive. There are challenges.