Re: Filesystem path ordering overrated.

2008-10-01 Thread Albert Cahalan
C. Scott Ananian writes: > The response usually is that additional context is sufficient to > disambiguate tag sets, you don't actually need ordering. That is, > it's okay if a/b is indistinguishable from b/a -- in practice one > will really be c/a/b and the other will be b/a/d or whatever, and >

Filesystem path ordering overrated.

2008-09-30 Thread C. Scott Ananian
[I found this email in my 'saved drafts' folder; I think I've mentioned my unordered tags experiments before, but I figured I'd send this off anyway.] Discussing next-gen journal designs, I often bring up 'ordered tags' as a necessary way to make the journal cooperate better with filesystems. The