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Tag-based filesystems.

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Philippe Pittoli 2025-02-07 05:27:39 +01:00
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@ -1141,7 +1141,7 @@ All storage devices have their own particularities, but regular hard drives and
.FOOTNOTE2
The rest of this section will address more
.dq generic
filesystems\*[*].
filesystems\*[*] unless explicitely stated otherwise.
.FOOTNOTE1
Furthermore, the rich history behind filesystems is inherently related to the rich history of storage devices, this document is not supposed to be a survey on either of those.
Let's keep it short and simple.
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.B tmpfs
is the more flexible one, it is used as ramfs but can be resized and only uses a necessary amount of RAM at a given point (memory is free'd once a file is removed).
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.B "Semantic (tag-based) filesystems" .
Some filesystems (such as tagsistant) store data based on tags for each file which enables to index a file based on many attributes and not a single path.
As a side effect, searching for a file in this context can be done by computing the intersection of different tags\*[*].
.KE
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Well well well… doesn't that sound like the DODB tag triggers?
As if databases and filesystems were intertwined somehow…
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.SSS "Conclusion on filesystems"