• MonkCanatella@sh.itjust.works
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    11 months ago

    I’ve thought a lot about stuff like this and this is pretty cool but this basically looks like just a tagging system for files, which already exists in many ways. A true graph based file system wouldn’t just be an overlay over a directory tree. Would love to see some kinda filesystem dedicated to graph representation, where each file is a node with multiple edges.

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    11 months ago

    That kind of storage might somewhat work for media files and simple tags if you only view the files in the tag-aware file manager but what about other applications and files?

    If the path of a file changes every time you add a tag or remove one that means the path of files is very unstable so you can’t e.g. reopen the last used files in other applications easily. I also don’t think this scales to the billions of files on a modern system. And of course any files required by an application to be in a specific place will be screwed up completely by this.

    Maybe the tag directories should be hard links to the actual files instead?

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    I don’t see how the tag => file path will be workable. As you add and remove tags, your actual file system is going to go strait to hell. Dear god I don’t want to think about what that would be like to browse from the terminal

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        Lately, I’ve started to hate scripted languages. That’s all I’ve got to say. You know, overhead and stuff? And well, much of it is just projection about how I can’t land even internships, because I decided to flunk on Golang and Rust. Ruby and Python ruined my early-career.

        • Been there. But, while I have a preference for statically compiled languages with minimal runtime-linked libraries, when it comes to GUIs, the horses are already out of the barn, right? So I don’t sweat it as much for software I’m getting from the distribution’s repos.