NorthWestWind@lemmy.world to Showerthoughts@lemmy.world · 4 months agoA file path is called a "path" because the file system is a tree which is a graphmessage-squaremessage-square19fedilinkarrow-up181arrow-down15file-text
arrow-up176arrow-down1message-squareA file path is called a "path" because the file system is a tree which is a graphNorthWestWind@lemmy.world to Showerthoughts@lemmy.world · 4 months agomessage-square19fedilinkfile-text
minus-squarewhaleross@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up1·edit-24 months agoI’ve talked before about my old idea about a tag based file system but it is purely theoretical yet afaik. Basically it is an object database where it doesn’t matter how you order the relevant tags. /a/b/file and /b/a/file are the same thing.
minus-squarejustaman123@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up3·4 months agoSee the Wikipedia link in another comment about semantic filing systems seems like it is real.
minus-squarewhaleross@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up1·4 months agoThanks! Starting in around 2004, a new wave of implementations centered on manual tagging of files and folders. Wow, this was about the time I came up with the idea. Then again it was the time of blogs and tag clouds, so…
I’ve talked before about my old idea about a tag based file system but it is purely theoretical yet afaik. Basically it is an object database where it doesn’t matter how you order the relevant tags. /a/b/file and /b/a/file are the same thing.
See the Wikipedia link in another comment about semantic filing systems seems like it is real.
Thanks!
Wow, this was about the time I came up with the idea. Then again it was the time of blogs and tag clouds, so…