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Re:Show HN: FSQL – Search through your file system with SQL-... by UnfairIsaac on Monday May 15, 2017 @06:55PM (#14345922)
That was my first thought, too. I'd love a file system that was more like a relational database.

Also see the Pick operating system.

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Re:Show HN: FSQL – Search through your file system with SQL-... by LgWoodenBadger on Monday May 15, 2017 @09:01PM (#14346599)
Transactional ACID updates to file systems would be pretty fantastic.
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Re:Show HN: FSQL – Search through your file system with SQL-... by mpfundstein on Tuesday May 16, 2017 @05:24AM (#14348358)
yes. thinking about this for a long time already
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Re:Show HN: FSQL – Search through your file system with SQL-... by Jweb_Guru on Monday May 15, 2017 @11:36PM (#14347191)
BTRFS has had a bunch of problems trying to actually compete with traditional filesystems, though. In the distributed world, CalvinFS seems pretty promising to me.
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Re:Show HN: FSQL – Search through your file system with SQL-... by sharemywin on Tuesday May 16, 2017 @08:45AM (#14349098)
I always wanted the file system to be built on a version control.
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Re:Show HN: FSQL – Search through your file system with SQL-... by GlobalServices on Monday May 15, 2017 @07:16PM (#14346051)
Also MUMPS. See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pick_operating_system for info.

In some ways, Microsoft is on the way there with the way PowerShell works, and the ability to script things through OS functions that return objects which can be queried. If we ever see a WinFS, it would be very powerful combined with PowerShell

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