Project Summary
FSter is a virtual file system implementation 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
In a Nutshell, FSter...
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took an estimated 2 years of effort (COCOMO model)
starting with its first commit in November, 2009
ending with its most recent commit about 11 years ago
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This Project has No vulnerabilities Reported Against it
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