On 27 Mar 2010, at 16:54, erik quanstrom wrote:
I'm thinking over the idea that we're bumping up against the
practical limits
of hierarchal file systems as a means for organising stuff, but
I've no idea
what else might work.
Google's approach is not to bother sorting things out. Use searches
to find data you want. You can still do some sorting in things like
gmail, but you don't need to.
what google uses for its search tables or custom applications
might not be that interesting in the context of a general purpose
operating system.
Yeah... I'm using OS X and I'm not impressed with its Spotlight
filesystem search, yet. It's just too general.
--
Simplicity does not precede complexity, but follows it.
-- Alan Perlis
