Re: Hierarchical tag structure in SetFS

On Fri, Mar 02, 2007 at 10:19:21AM +0000, Tuomo Valkonen wrote:
> I think you're also still confusing the notion of a tag on setfs,
> and meta-data tag: you're thinking too much in terms of providing
> lots of description (metadata) for a file, and too little in terms
> of simply removing the order from unix path names, and providing a
> non-hierarchical identity.

I was just rereading this thread and that just clicked for me as well,
Most of the information I wanted to attribute is meta-data.  A few times
when I was thinking about this I was wondering who was going to bother
entering all this information and I'm still not sure.  One hierarchy can
be bad and I'm not entirely sure if several would be better.  I would
like to think it would though!

> Yes, deciding on an identity for a file
> can demand a bit of effort, and it is not always clear, but it 
> should be easier to decide on an non-hierarchical identity than a
> hierarchical one in at least some use cases.  I think organisation
> of random notes could be one of those, and that's why I want to try
> this in riot.

Yes, I think you are right here.  It would be a very powerful
organisational tool for this sort of thing, I can imagine some very good
interfaces based on this concept.  In terms of using it as a general
file system, I'm not sure how well it would scale (in human terms of
coming up with meaningful tags) past a few thousand objects/files.


  Sam