> but multiple hard links have been a thing in file systems since forever. The UI around creating/managing/deleting them is worse than with a properly supporte

> but multiple hard links have been a thing in file systems since forever. The UI around creating/managing/deleting them is worse than with a properly supported tagging system, though. Plus they're prone to breakage by any program that attempts to do atomic saves (i.e. renames the old file first). While I certainly wouldn't want to give up hierarchical file systems as the default, there are a few things where I'd really wish for some OS/file system-level support for tagging, too