Mountain Lion's new file system
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Mountain Lion's new file system
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Re: Mountain Lion's new file system
#2When is someone in charge of such things for an OS vendor going to realize that for any of "my" documents, what I really want is to tag them?
Re: Mountain Lion's new file system
#3I think funny that it's easier to dumbi-fy the user instead of creating something worth some like tagging and making metada easier and more useable.
EDIT: Also, I think he's referring to iCloud only.
Re: Mountain Lion's new file system
#4Wasn't the original Apple "filesystem", circa II, a flat one?
That is, a list.
Not only is it easier to work with, as the article suggests, but, obviously, it's faster!
I use globbing on a daily basis over other later approaches, e.g. regex. But it works best with a relatively flat filesystem. Too deep, and it's off.
The simplest approach possible.
But before we can fix filesystems, maybe we need to teach people how to name files in ways to make their life simpler. Long filenames and ones with spaces and punctuation inevitably become a huge PITA. Yet we think of these as "must-have" conveniences.
I used to believe that too. But over time I've realized this slows things down immensely and introduces lots of unneeded complexity. Speed and simplicity is more important.
If you can get by with only a "list of files", you are better off.
Re: Mountain Lion's new file system
#5I really don't understand what is being said here. How are folders a hard concept?
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#6Coming from Linux, you would think "new file system" would mean that: a new file system.
But its just the same smoke and mirrors Microsoft did when they scrapped WinFS: add magic folders, terrible ideas (translated folder names?) and missing hard features (links) in a limited fashion.
Thats sad, because the file system could certainly do with a complete makeover: metadata, builtin sync with the cloud, backup and encryption as a first-class citizen, etc. etc.
For now, thats only available in enterprise solutions like ZFS or in the still very alpha btrfs.
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#7I'll have to see what this is like by actually using it. Right now, my biggest concern is that it usually makes for better usability if you allow the user to organize and group content in a way that makes sense to them. I don't feel this is an area where the OS should take control away from the user.
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#8So ... what happens if I drop to the terminal and:
mkdir -p /Users/username/folder1/folder2/folder3
... and then open the finder and navigate to my home dir ... do I just not see past the first nesting ? Is it hidden ?
Re: Mountain Lion's new file system
#9When is someone in charge of such things for an OS vendor going to realize that for any of "my" documents, what I really want is to tag them?
I would jettison every piece of computing hardware I own right now and switch to the first device that would let me add (and search) tags in file metadata.
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#10Windows did it first... My Documents / My Downloads / My Movies / My Music / My Pictures. The author makes it seem like Mac's "default content folder" scheme was a novel idea.