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The author is conflating hardware and logic. A hard drive is hardware but a file system is a logical tree. The author provided simplistic reasoning for abandoni
by austincheney 6y ago
The author is conflating hardware and logic. A hard drive is hardware but a file system is a logical tree. The author provided simplistic reasoning for abandoning a type of hardware but no reasoning for abandoning file systems.
If not a file system then what? Don’t say RAM, because that is still hardware.
- sthnblllII 6y agoYea, a hierarchical system for organizing data seems useful even if its stored on the same physical medium as main memory. Your profile is Highly Appropriate btw.
- tadfisher 6y agoIt is useful but limiting. The point of the logical tree is to index files, but a tree is a subset of more powerful indexing methods. Relational and graph structures come to mind. Incidentally, databases exist to marshal indexed data so that it's not visible or managed by the file system. This seems like something a non-hierarchical file system would supplant, which would allow for interoperability with file-oriented tools.