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Tagging is often better than hierarchies. You can organize by project (i.e. office fitout, web server upgrade) and other categories (i.e. budget related, list o
by wisty 15y ago
Tagging is often better than hierarchies. You can organize by project (i.e. office fitout, web server upgrade) and other categories (i.e. budget related, list of people involved, plans) to make things easier to find when you switch contexts. Want to look at a single project, or all the budgets for the year?
- sid0 15y agoIsn't that what Microsoft tried to do with Longhorn, and failed miserably at?
- programminggeek 15y agoMicrosoft tried to make the filesystem a database, as in, the filesystem was literally SQL Server or something. It didn't work. That is a completely different concept than simply changing the user-visible filesystem abstraction.
- lukeschlather 15y agoHow would you make a tag-based filesystem without a database that wasn't literally SQL server or something?
- wisty 15y agoI don't think it was really SQL Server. They could have made that work. I think it was more like they heard the XML buzz (this was some time ago), and tried to make a proprietary binary version of whatever it was XML was promising.