Re: Hierarchical tag structure in SetFS

(Since the other message seems to have stuck in some queye, I'll just
reply again here, although I should be replying to myself.)

tuomov wrote:
> But having to use some arcane (numeric) identifiers for persistent
> access to files instead of their paths drifts too much away from
> unixland into WIMPland.

The following quote explains the connection to WIMPs (Weakly Interacting
Massive Programs):

> The see-and-point principle states that users interact with the computer
> by pointing at the objects they can see on the screen. It's as if we have
> thrown away a million years of evolution, lost our facility with
> expressive language, and been reduced to pointing at objects in the
> immediate environment. Mouse buttons and modifier keys give us a
> vocabulary equivalent to a few different grunts. We have lost all the
> power of language, and can no longer talk about objects that are not
> immediately visible 
>
> [D. Gentner and J. Nielsen: The Anti-Mac Interface,
>  http://www.acm.org/pubs/cacm/AUG96/antimac.htm]

In a metadata DB FS, files don't have names that we can talk about.
We can only search for them in various ways, and point at the found
objects.

-- 
Tuomo