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Oh for the... we had non-hierarchical file systems already, thank you very much. It's what OS/360 used. It's what Apple Macintosh did (and yes, Macintosh Finder
by Joker_vD 4y ago
Oh for the... we had non-hierarchical file systems already, thank you very much. It's what OS/360 used. It's what Apple Macintosh did (and yes, Macintosh Finder faked the hierarchy on top of it, just as you propose). And they're not gone, Amazon S3 essentially is one.
And I remember that I half-jokingly proposed in some other discussion about file paths to either remove the filenames entirely or at least lift the uniqueness restriction: after all, if you have a GUI, files with the same name don't cause that much of a trouble.