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A comment on Starting Over: A FOSS proposal for a new type of OS for a new type of computer.

Re:Starting Over: A FOSS proposal for a new type of OS for a... by austincheney on Monday February 08, 2021 @04:04PM (#26070094)
The author is conflating hardware and logic. A hard drive is hardware but a file system is a logical tree. The author provided simplistic reasoning for abandoning a type of hardware but no reasoning for abandoning file systems.

If not a file system then what? Don’t say RAM, because that is still hardware.

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Re:Starting Over: A FOSS proposal for a new type of OS for a... by sthnblllII on Monday February 08, 2021 @08:13PM (#26072634)
Yea, a hierarchical system for organizing data seems useful even if its stored on the same physical medium as main memory. Your profile is Highly Appropriate btw.
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Re:Starting Over: A FOSS proposal for a new type of OS for a... by tadfisher on Monday February 08, 2021 @11:02PM (#26073666)
It is useful but limiting. The point of the logical tree is to index files, but a tree is a subset of more powerful indexing methods. Relational and graph structures come to mind.

Incidentally, databases exist to marshal indexed data so that it's not visible or managed by the file system. This seems like something a non-hierarchical file system would supplant, which would allow for interoperability with file-oriented tools.

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