Beaglefs implements a filesystem representing a live beagle query. the filesystem represents query hit results as symlinks to the hit targets.

in addition, beaglefs provides the following features:
- live updating: the filesystem is updated on-the-fly as hits come and go.
- extended attributes: beagle hit metadata is exported as extended
attributes in the system.beagle.* namespace.
- constant time operations: the backing data structure is a hash table,
providing o(1) best-case complexity for many operations.
- supported file operations: readdir, readlink, getxattr, listxattr, stat,
and statfs.