Kopretinka: Comments on Tags instead of directories?

Comment by Standa

2007-02-04T20:57:29Z

e.g. beaglefs http://rlove.org/log/2006062301

Comment by Dave Orchard

2007-02-20T19:15:41Z

I think you might be on to something. I'd already like to switch my music collection to tags. If I want to listen to mellow newish female singer/songwriters, tagging with mellow, female, singer/songwriter combined with date search is the right way to go. I've tried to do file hierarchies but they just don't work. Should Norah Jones be Pop, Indie, Vocals? How about KT Tunstall? Or Sia? Or...

Pictures and videos still make sense by directory to me though.

Maybe files by tagging will take over selected directories like music.

Comment by Petruza

2007-09-08T20:48:29Z

Well this is a great idea, I've been thinking about it for a while.
It would let you manage the files in a totally flexible way, instead of rigid directories.
But since there are no directories, could two files have the same name?
supose they can only if they have different sets of tags, what if you want some day to change the tags of one file in such way it ends up with the same tags and same name of another file?
Would this filesystem have the filetype info as an extension like in windows? or as hidden metadata as in macintosh?
All in all, it's a very good Idea, dough.

Comment by Juergen Umbrich

2008-07-07T18:34:49Z

Hi Jacek,
Not quite sure but I found a paper[1] about a related topic today.
"SemFS: A Semantic approach to File Systems"
and perhaps a related link[2] to a tagging file system.

Juergen
[1]http://prashblog.com/files/hipaac.pdf
[2]http://www.tagsistant.net/