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Date: Sat, 29 May 2004 18:58:34 +0200
From: Tristan Seligmann <mithrandi@mithrandi.za.net>
To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@cse.psu.edu>
Subject: Re: Re: [9fans] acme: some thoughts about design
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On Sat, May 29, 2004 at 19:51:56 +0300, Tiit Lankots wrote:
> > If I have a usefull search interface I didnt need any=20
> > filename or directory structure. A user isn't interessted in=20
> > filesystems.
>=20
> A smart user is. When your file count passes 200 000, you won't know
> your
> left from your right in a flat file space. Hierarchy is your friend.

A 2-dimensional hierarchy is hopelessly inadequate for storing
information in a "natural" way. People retrieve information along many
different "vectors" all the time, and a hierachical filesystem only
really has 1 or 2. It may be a great low-level implementation, but being
able to say "find the e-mail I wrote to Timothy last week" is a lot more
useful to the user.

--=20
mithrandi, i Ainil en-Balandor, a faer Ambar

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