I did not check if by default the fuse is built in the openmoko kernel, but I came today to the conclusion that I missed a lot of oportunities by not using fuse. I think on an embedded device this could create some interesting opportunities. Even more I was investigation dbus performance, and came to the conclusion that a lot was dbus does, could be done by fuse in a more efficient way…

Something like http://www.runtimeaccess.com/projects/rta/index.html could help programs to publish there data in a filesystem… etc…

Anyway the idea to map databases you use in everyday life to the filesystem, and do things like find/grep index etc on them, is really powerful!!!

I will do all this from now on…

even more… I will mount even things like wikipedia… dictionaries etc.

I hope it will not mean security issues:)

Anyway, the most exciting are:

• Database filesystems ( mysqlfs )
• http://httpfs.sourceforge.net/

Fuse is a way the prolongation of the ideas like reiserfs…

Another ingredient for fast programs is JSON. The JSON format is a concurrent of XML and YAML. The later stays closer to JSON. I found so far two libraries for C++ that can parse and write JSON structures:

• http://jsoncpp.sourceforge.net/
• http://blog.beef.de/projects/tinyjson

… there are even further few listed on the homepage json.org

… There is even a query language jaql