TMSU: a tool born out of frustration with the hierarchical nature of filesystems

Re:TMSU: a tool born out of frustration with the hierarchica... by zyxley on Monday May 09, 2016 @12:00PM (#11660815)

What existing tools can automatically generate a virtual filesystem based on tag metadata?

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Re:TMSU: a tool born out of frustration with the hierarchica... by cyphar on Monday May 09, 2016 @12:16PM (#11660923)

Tagging can be done with symlinks if you just want to stick to using the filesystem.

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Re:TMSU: a tool born out of frustration with the hierarchica... by x5n1 on Monday May 09, 2016 @12:04PM (#11660838)

no not virtual filesystem, i meant querying your files by date or tag... find, grep and something to print the tag would do the job.

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Re:TMSU: a tool born out of frustration with the hierarchica... by marklgr on Monday May 09, 2016 @12:07PM (#11660860)

But where is the metadata? With OP's tool, it is in some db, so you don't have to tamper with your files or their name.

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Re:TMSU: a tool born out of frustration with the hierarchica... by x5n1 on Monday May 09, 2016 @12:18PM (#11660943)

well with mp3 files the meta data is in the file, it's called an id3 tag. for other files, depends on the file.

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