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The filesystem is used by different people for different purposes. Any attempt to make sense about “what makes sense” for files is going to be colored very diff
by klodolph 5y ago
The filesystem is used by different people for different purposes. Any attempt to make sense about “what makes sense” for files is going to be colored very differently depending on what perspective you have.
From an end-user perspective, files are documents that I create and I want to be able to find them in different ways.
From the perspective of a typical app developer, the filesystem is a hierarchical key-value store.
The perspective of a database developer, backup software developer, system administrator, etc. is going to be completely different yet.
- roenxi 5y agoIt is easy to do that though - set up a database. I've met one, maybe 2, people who don't use file systems the conventional way. They're rare and they generally just want a search index as opposed to relational data.
- klodolph 5y ago> It is easy to do that though - set up a database. I think we have really, fundamentally, failed to communicate here. I’m 100% sure we are talking about different things.