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From: "Tiit Lankots" <t.lankots@aprote.ee>
To: "Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs" <9fans@cse.psu.edu>,
	<russcox@gmail.com>
Subject: RE: Re: [9fans] acme: some thoughts about design
Date: Sat, 29 May 2004 19:51:56 +0300	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <81132473206F3A46A72BD6116E1A06AEAD0457@black.aprote.com> (raw)

> If I have a usefull search interface I didnt need any 
> filename or directory structure. A user isn't interessted in 
> filesystems.

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.


             reply	other threads:[~2004-05-29 16:51 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 21+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2004-05-29 16:51 Tiit Lankots [this message]
2004-05-29 16:58 ` Tristan Seligmann
2004-05-29 17:34   ` dvd
2004-05-30  3:49     ` Joel Salomon
2004-05-29 22:48   ` boyd, rounin
2004-05-29 23:56     ` Tristan Seligmann
2004-05-29 23:54       ` boyd, rounin
2004-05-29 23:59       ` boyd, rounin
2004-05-30  0:51         ` Tristan Seligmann
2004-05-30  3:40           ` Joel Salomon
2004-05-31  9:19           ` a
2004-05-31 10:17             ` Bruce Ellis
2004-05-30 18:09         ` Bruce Ellis
2004-05-29 17:40 ` Matthias Teege
2004-05-29 22:43 ` boyd, rounin
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2004-05-31  5:46 YAMANASHI Takeshi
2004-05-31 21:03 ` Tristan Seligmann
2004-05-29 17:58 Tiit Lankots
2004-05-29  9:28 Matthias Teege
2004-05-29 14:48 ` Russ Cox
2004-05-29 16:18   ` Matthias Teege
2004-05-29 18:31     ` 9nut

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