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Re:Files and folders by andrewflnr on Wednesday June 12, 2013 @10:38PM (#5871991)
I hope what makes the traditional filesystem obsolete is something with better support for non-treeish data, including tags.
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Re:Files and folders by ori_b on Thursday June 13, 2013 @12:11AM (#5872275)
A tag based file systems are equivalent to a hierarchy with symlinks (or directory hard links). If you don't allow tagging of tags, it's equivalent to restricting your hierarchy to one level.

Tags and directory DAGs are the same.

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Re:Files and folders by andrewflnr on Thursday June 13, 2013 @12:28AM (#5872317)
True. Maybe we just need better interfaces for managing multiply-referenced files.
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