On Jun 17, 2009, at 1:54 AM, Charles Forsyth wrote:

The only drawback so far seems to be the fact that if one
needs flexibility, then every file becomes a subdirectory.
Not that it is scary or anything, but it smells too much
of resource forks (or may be I'm just too easily scared).

it's the other way round: they ought to have represented
collections of related data and metadata using directories
instead of inventing rubbish like resource forks.

They sort-of-kind-of got there in Mac OS X with `application bundles' that are just specially named directories with some canonical contents. It'll take another major systems change for them to wean themselves off of resource forks entirely, I expect.