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I imagine you are familiar with BFS (https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Be_File_System https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Be_File_System) already, but if you aren't I

• nayuki 9y ago
  Thanks for pointing out BeFS. I only learned about it in the past few months, whereas I was thinking about alternatives to hierarchies for a decade. These related links were quite helpful to my initial understanding of BeFS's unique features: * https://systemswe.love/archive/minneapolis-2017/ivan-richwalski https://systemswe.love/archive/minneapolis-2017/ivan-richwal... * https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2010/06/the-beos-filesystem/ https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2010/06/the-b... I am a fan of their dynamic queries. Being able to search all over the file system for certain attributes, instead of merely browsing a pre-canned hierarchy, is a powerful feature. I'm not a fan of their extended attributes though; it seems brittle currently because we have reduced files down to the lowest common denominator of being a finite sequence of bytes, with very little metadata on the side (if you're lucky, you might get a file name and MIME type attached).