GLSCube - the semantic filesystem

[John Richard Moser]

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Saad Shakhshir wrote:
[...]
> more.  It is a solution that distances you from thinking about Where you
> store your data to What your data is."
[...]

So instead of:

 /home/joe/music/mp3/artist/album/foo.mp3

I have:

joe's files ->
  Music ->
  MP3 ->
  Artist ->
  Album ->
  Foo

OR:

Music ->
 (80 billion files, one of which is the song I want)

Come on, guys, it's just more hierarchical indexing, just with more
meta-data.  Taking away the real file system would only serve to make
people access thing by keys, which would be difficult to control, then
create more work, etc.

You know what worked back in the day?  Media libraries.  You would have
all these music files and videos stored in /home/joe/media/{music,video}
and subdirectories for artist or album and the media library would go
and find them all, index them automatically.  E-mail programs would also
index all your e-mails, even though they're stored in a mail directory.

I don't understand why people want to actually eliminate file
hierarchical storage.  I tried to get the gtk guys to get rid of that
stupid file picker; they said that you should have the few folders you
use bookmarked.  I asked about when you have like
/home/joe/audio/cd_collection/artist/album/ and just want to bookmark
audio/ and go from there; they told me that's stupid, save the files
straight in /home/joe/ and use something like beagle to find them.  Is
this what we're trying to do?  Get a single directory of everything?


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