alt Hacker NewsHmm, I'm not saying it's a good idea, but what about a daemon that keeps a symlinked version of the entire jira environment up to date? So you have one jira-as-filesystem that's the raw files, but then for human consumption/interaction, you have a tree of symlinks, including multiple links to the same file wherever it's relevant. Might be adding more layers than needed, based on my lack of understanding, but might technically solve the (current/stated) abstraction issue.
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Would you even need a daemon for that? That sounds as if the FS could just generate the symlinks on-the-fly in the same way that it generates the folders.
(Unless symlinks are somehow special - but at least both /dev and /proc also provide symlinks and to my knowledge they don't have any actual storage behind them, so it should be possible, I think)
May as well just implement that in the FUSE driver.
State syncing is always harder than state reading
That's sort of what I'm doing behind the scenes, because I keep one global list of downloaded issues (they're lazily loaded when you access them) and then the folders are really only "views" into the downloaded issues. Representing identical ones across trees as symlinks is a fantastic idea though, I can't believe I didn't think of that! Thanks for the inspiration.