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Reinventing the wheel often means breaking things. Innovation often requires getting rid of backwards compatibility. The status quo is promoted by those who hav

Reinventing the wheel often means breaking things. Innovation often requires getting rid of backwards compatibility. The status quo is promoted by those who have invested in it, so disrupting it can be met with fierce resistance. When I tell people that file systems are antiquated and need to be replaced with something much better; I often get strong push back. This is a wheel that I have been reinventing for some time. It's not something that can be fixed with minor tweaks.

01HNNWZ0MV43FF 2y ago
Do you have a blog about replacing file systems with something much better? I'm curious what you've tried so far
- didgetmaster 2y ago
  My blog is listed in my profile. Didgets.substack.com has many blog entries.
- intalentive 2y ago
  I found this. There's also a demo. Good points. https://didgets.substack.com/p/where-did-i-put-that-file https://didgets.substack.com/p/where-did-i-put-that-file
glitchc 2y ago
We need content addressable FSes with bloom filters for fast lookups.
- didgetmaster 2y ago
  That might be what we need, or not. But we do need to look at different approaches and figure out something better.
- renox 2y ago
  I would already happy with FS based on 'tags' not trees.
  - mdaniel 2y ago
    So, you'd tag all these files with .. what? "pnpm, node_modules"? find $HOMEBREW_PREFIX/opt/pnpm/libexec/lib/node_modules -type f | wc -l 1450 For your .pdf or .docx that are just lumped into $HOME/Documents, I'm with you, they don't exactly need "folders" but a _filesystem_ based only on tags would be horrific in any python or node shop since their primitive unit is a file within a folder
  - didgetmaster 2y ago
    The object store I have created offers a fast, convenient way to attach multiple tags to each object. Each tag is a single value which can be a string, number, boolean, datetime stamp, etc.. You can still organize things using folders, but you can query for things based off their tags as well.
motorest 2y ago
> Reinventing the wheel often means breaking things. Innovation often requires getting rid of backwards compatibility. The status quo is promoted by those who have invested in it, so disrupting it can be met with fierce resistance. This is a terribly simplistic take. To start off, it ignores the fact that major rewrites are known for failing. https://www.joelonsoftware.com/2000/04/06/things-you-should-never-do-part-i/ https://www.joelonsoftware.com/2000/04/06/things-you-should-... It also does not help that the only item you could come up to include in your risk matrix is... Someone else's bad will? Absurdly short-sighted.
- didgetmaster 2y ago
  Of course many new wheel inventions fail, and mine could very well be among them. You never know if you don't try. The alternative, of course is to simply accept that all wheels already invented work just fine and don't need to be fixed. Which approach is the most 'short-sighted'?

01HNNWZ0MV43FF 2y ago

Do you have a blog about replacing file systems with something much better? I'm curious what you've tried so far

didgetmaster 2y ago
My blog is listed in my profile. Didgets.substack.com has many blog entries.
intalentive 2y ago
I found this. There's also a demo. Good points. https://didgets.substack.com/p/where-did-i-put-that-file https://didgets.substack.com/p/where-did-i-put-that-file

glitchc 2y ago

We need content addressable FSes with bloom filters for fast lookups.

didgetmaster 2y ago
That might be what we need, or not. But we do need to look at different approaches and figure out something better.
renox 2y ago
I would already happy with FS based on 'tags' not trees.
- mdaniel 2y ago
  So, you'd tag all these files with .. what? "pnpm, node_modules"? find $HOMEBREW_PREFIX/opt/pnpm/libexec/lib/node_modules -type f | wc -l 1450 For your .pdf or .docx that are just lumped into $HOME/Documents, I'm with you, they don't exactly need "folders" but a _filesystem_ based only on tags would be horrific in any python or node shop since their primitive unit is a file within a folder
- didgetmaster 2y ago
  The object store I have created offers a fast, convenient way to attach multiple tags to each object. Each tag is a single value which can be a string, number, boolean, datetime stamp, etc.. You can still organize things using folders, but you can query for things based off their tags as well.

motorest 2y ago

> Reinventing the wheel often means breaking things. Innovation often requires getting rid of backwards compatibility. The status quo is promoted by those who have invested in it, so disrupting it can be met with fierce resistance. This is a terribly simplistic take. To start off, it ignores the fact that major rewrites are known for failing. https://www.joelonsoftware.com/2000/04/06/things-you-should-never-do-part-i/ https://www.joelonsoftware.com/2000/04/06/things-you-should-... It also does not help that the only item you could come up to include in your risk matrix is... Someone else's bad will? Absurdly short-sighted.

didgetmaster 2y ago
Of course many new wheel inventions fail, and mine could very well be among them. You never know if you don't try. The alternative, of course is to simply accept that all wheels already invented work just fine and don't need to be fixed. Which approach is the most 'short-sighted'?