FS?
As in “F’ing Shit”?
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tinned_tomatoes@feddit.uk 18 hours agoI do kinda wish we had gotten WinFS. All the “ideas” of it seemed cool, just impossible to implement without breaking every existing application.
hansolo@lemmy.today 17 hours ago
megabyteX@lemmy.world 16 hours ago
Future Storage aka WinFS. It was a cool idea, metadata based relational db file system. But the execution was horrible, SQL Server based file system which was exposed via .NET IIRC.
Desktop search was supposed to be revolutionized, but it was scrapped just before Vista was released
rigatti@lemmy.world 17 hours ago
If I recall, it was a new file system. So instead if folders, every file would just kind of have tags and could be dynamically grouped like that. I could very well be wrong, but I remember being excited for it.
MonkderVierte@lemmy.zip 15 hours ago
Can we please have a FUSE FS like this?
catloaf@lemm.ee 12 hours ago
I was curious, so I found this: stackoverflow.com/…/file-system-that-uses-tags-ra…
One of the projects they mention is tagfs, which sounds like it does what you want: github.com/marook/tagfs
LWD@lemm.ee 17 hours ago
If Windows is (was) good at anything, it’s maintaining backwards compatibility for longer than anyone expects them to. Never mind revolutionizing their entire file system, Windows 11 is still backwards-compatible with batch files written before we had folders.