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Date: Thu, 16 Aug 2012 16:11:11 -0400
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Subject: Re: [9fans] Multi-dimensional filesystem
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> I think you missed the point. What I have given is an example, what
> indeed made me wonder, initially, about a way to simply store
> definitions as a text file, the relationships between the notions
> being described by a directory structure. It was obvious rapidly
> that this won't do in a classical hierarchical filesystem.

i think this can be done with a traditional file system as long as
you don't insist that a file belong to exactly one directory.  (that is
messing with ".." is the hard way to go.)

(note that plan 9 file servers already do this in a limited way since
the dump file system allows an unchanging file or directory to be
a member of as many /n/dump/yyyy/mmdd[.seq] heirarchies as there are
dumps between changes.)

- erik