From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Message-Id: <11721B64-8041-4D96-94E3-49472F941C38@fastmail.fm> From: Ethan Grammatikidis To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@9fans.net> In-Reply-To: <202b36ec0f14adf4b09e53052147ccc8@brasstown.quanstro.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed; delsp=yes Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v936) Date: Sun, 28 Mar 2010 20:06:21 +0100 References: <20100325114948.GA7249@polynum.com> <31C84C15-2EE3-46CA-BE9F-48F20886ADF7@fastmail.fm> <202b36ec0f14adf4b09e53052147ccc8@brasstown.quanstro.net> Subject: Re: [9fans] Man pages for add-ons Topicbox-Message-UUID: f6f960b2-ead5-11e9-9d60-3106f5b1d025 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