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@ -1141,7 +1141,7 @@ All storage devices have their own particularities, but regular hard drives and
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The rest of this section will address more The rest of this section will address more
.dq generic .dq generic
filesystems\*[*]. filesystems\*[*] unless explicitely stated otherwise.
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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. 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. Let's keep it short and simple.
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.B tmpfs .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). 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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.KS
.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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.KS .KS
.SSS "Conclusion on filesystems" .SSS "Conclusion on filesystems"