Re:Rethinking the filesystem as global mutable state, the ro...
by JoeAltmaier on Tuesday June 11, 2019 @03:32PM
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By attributes. Which one did you want? The latest? The one created by app X? The one you printed yesterday?
The fact is, you can do these queries if you allow flexible attributes. With a fixed file system (almost all file systems) you cant ask. In practice, you've already overwritten the one you want, or one app conflicted with another, or you just can't do you want (have two versions of an app installed at the same time).
The fact is, you can do these queries if you allow flexible attributes. With a fixed file system (almost all file systems) you cant ask. In practice, you've already overwritten the one you want, or one app conflicted with another, or you just can't do you want (have two versions of an app installed at the same time).