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Well, on the one hand, I tend to agree, but on the other hand, we should explore these concepts more deeply. The Von Neumann computing architecture hasn't chang

Well, on the one hand, I tend to agree, but on the other hand, we should explore these concepts more deeply. The Von Neumann computing architecture hasn't changed in like 80 years and is still pretty darn dominant. I am fine with people exploring this space without dismissing them out of hand. Sure, file systems don't seem like they are going anywhere in their present form, but this is how we advance computing. Paradigm shifts can and will happen, eventually.

vidarh 5y ago
To me, what makes hierarchical file systems compelling, and what a replacement needs to be able to achieve, is that it provides logical filtering. E.g. I rarely want to search all image files on my machine. I want to search screenshots or personal photos or desktop backgrounds. For some categories, like my source code, the hierarchy is deeper. You can emulate that with tags, certainly, and for some things that's a better fit (a photo can be both a personal photo and a desktop background). But what matters is that the full set of operations, including "this is no longer an X, but it's a Y" aka move/rename, and "find Xs with these attributes" must be just as fast and easy to do.