Show HN: FSQL – Search through your file system with SQL-esque queries

Post by [deleted] » Thu, May 18, 2017, 12:10 PM UTC

skissane wrote: post #110

geokon wrote: post #98

Earlier quoted context omitted.

While WinFS was a good start, I think the idea of a semantic file system could be extended much further to the whole system (if it weren't for pesky POSIX) I think most people would expect /home/geokon/program1/src/ and /src/program1/home/geokon to have pretty much the same content A tag based file system that makes the two equivalent would eliminate all sorta of annoyances where you can't decide how to structure you…

Years ago, I had a similar idea, but never did anything with it. Look at DNs in LDAP (and X.400/X.500), they are based on attribute=value pairs. What about a filesystem in which filenames were collections of attribute=value pairs? e.g. /home/geokon/program1/src/foo.c could become: user=geokon/program=program1/category=src/lang=c/name=foo You could potentially decide that the order of the attributes is not significant…