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> The problem with a fixed / structured filesystem is that it's largely inflexible. The next option would be to have some sort of hybrid -- a persistent data st
by StreakyCobra 9y ago
> The problem with a fixed / structured filesystem is that it's largely inflexible. The next option would be to have some sort of hybrid -- a persistent data store plus, say, hardlinks or symlinks onto that store based on other elements, could work, but would be somewhat annoying to maintain (though not impossible, and a tools-based approach might well work).
What your are describing here is called a semantic file system, and there are some implementations of this, like for instance https://www.tagsistant.net/ https://www.tagsistant.net/
- dredmorbius 9y agoThanks, I wasn't aware of the term (though I'm familiar with semantic information systems, e.g., "semantic Web", in other contexts. Tagsistant is ... getting there. From the description, still not quite what I'm looking for. Its duplicate-file detection, for example, would note the same logical file being present twice, but not, say, War and Peace in LaTeX, generated PDF, and scanned TIFF forms. Some way of recognising the latter as, if not the same, then at the very least related somehow, would be highly useful.