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I'm afraid I don't follow. Who maintains this table and who consumes it? What if they're different entities? How do you prevent it from going out of sync with t
by dataflow 5y ago
I'm afraid I don't follow. Who maintains this table and who consumes it? What if they're different entities? How do you prevent it from going out of sync with the file system when the user renames a file? Are you inventing your own file system here? How do you deal with existing file systems?
- rzzzt 5y agoI assumed that you have a system where file management/synchronization happens strictly through a web interface, and files are not changed or renamed outside this system's knowledge. Under these preconditions, having such a mapping table frees the users from having to abide whatever restrictions the underlying file system places on valid file names.
- dataflow 5y agoOh I was talking about the general case from a programming standpoint. What do you do on a typical local filesystem? The point I'm trying to get at being, you need to worry about the representation at multiple layers, not just at the bottom FS layer.