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SHOW HN2020
49points
13comments
#1,077of 3,028 in 2020
Top 36%of 2020 by points
How HN took it
MixedNo clear lean
3 positive, 3 neutral or asking, 1 mixed, 0 critical, out of 7 comments about the project. Thread score +0.29.
Idea: 3 for, 0 against
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What HN said
What people liked
Good idea that makes tags available to every file chooser.
From 2 comments
Because by making it a regular fs you immediately get support in every piece of software. Every file chooser on your system suddenly knows about tags and gives you a way to query…
Spivak on HNI don't know enough about filesystems to speak as to whether it's a good or bad design, but I quite like the concept. Cool work!
Shared404 on HN
Objections
Performance may suffer with many files and tags and deep dynamic directories.
From 1 comment
Not formally, no, but anecdotally, I do notice some performance impact with with many files and tags, and some of the more aggressive file browsers like to depth-first cache…
daenz on HN
Requests
Performance benchmarks.
From 1 comment
Have you performance benchmarked this? Would be interested in giving it a try if performance is not compromised. Currently use XFS.
sanketsarang on HN
Questions
Why build it as a FUSE filesystem rather than a tag-filtering script.
From 1 comment
Neat. As a remark, this is how LDAP is structured: entries (files) are "tagged" by attributes (directories) and you access them with the same pseudo-paths which are actually…
lapinot on HN
Alternatives named
LDAP-style attribute filtering.
From 1 comment
Neat. As a remark, this is how LDAP is structured: entries (files) are "tagged" by attributes (directories) and you access them with the same pseudo-paths which are actually…
lapinot on HN
notmuch tag-based filtering.
From 1 comment
Neat. As a remark, this is how LDAP is structured: entries (files) are "tagged" by attributes (directories) and you access them with the same pseudo-paths which are actually…
lapinot on HN
Disco MapReduce tag-based distributed file system.
From 1 comment
The Disco MapReduce framework has a tag based distributed file system. https://github.com/discoproject/discodb
seg_lol on HN