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https://web.archive.org/web/20070927003401/http://www.namesys.com/whitepaper.html https://web.archive.org/web/20070927003401/http://www.namesy... Hans Reiser h

by zby 9y ago

https://web.archive.org/web/20070927003401/http://www.namesys.com/whitepaper.html https://web.archive.org/web/20070927003401/http://www.namesy... Hans Reiser had some good ideas. And by the way there is a good analogy with www - originally we had just the addresses (somehow hierarchical), then we had hierarchical catalogue of Yahoo, and then quickly it became too much for that and we now rely on search.

TeMPOraL 9y ago
There's a difference in searching the Internet and searching your own data. On the Internet, there's much more of everything than you'd ever need, and close to none of it is something you've created, or even seen before. So you use search to get some reasonably relevant results. The search doesn't have to be - and isn't - complete nor correct. On the filesystem, I'd like to know the data browser isn't hiding files from me by reporting only "top 100 relevant results", or not indexing half of it because $reasons, or not showing them because of faulty query. Being able to iterate through all files on your disk in a tree-like fashion seems like a feature.