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Well, it isn't really a matter of file system since it is possible to implement "tags" on any FS using links. (i.e. by creating directories named after tags and

Well, it isn't really a matter of file system since it is possible to implement "tags" on any FS using links. (i.e. by creating directories named after tags and by populating these directories with links to the actual files.) Therefore what you need isn't a new file system but a file system browser that allows you to specify a (set of) file(s) using tags. Considering how easy it would be to do just this using fuse, I'd guess some Linux folks already tried this, does anyone know about projects in this line?

hkolek 14y ago
Not really the approach you describe but quite some time ago I came across an experimental project which used a C implementation of Apache Lucene (I think that was called Lucy) to implement a new approach to file management, based on full-text search, where you don't store the files in a hierarchy but use more a concept liket tags and what a file is about and stuff like that. I thought it was pretty cool and the demo I tried worked pretty well for me. Unfortunately I can't find it anymore and can't remember the name or anything. I think this is a very interesting approach.