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It sounds like what everyone in this thread needs is a database file system. This was always my favorite proposed feature of Windows Longhorn that never made th
by ModernMech 5y ago
It sounds like what everyone in this thread needs is a database file system. This was always my favorite proposed feature of Windows Longhorn that never made the cut. Almost 2 decades later and Microsoft's latest OS still doesn't have this feature.
- nayuki 5y agoI wrote about what I perceived as deficiencies of hierarchical file systems, and proposed an alternative organization based on tags and hashes. It was discussed on Hacker News last week and many years ago. https://www.nayuki.io/page/designing-better-file-organization-around-tags-not-hierarchies https://www.nayuki.io/page/designing-better-file-organizatio... ; https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29141800 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29141800
- tambourine_man 5y agoHave you used BeOS?
- ModernMech 5y agoFor sure! I actually used Be before I ever used Linux.