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   Haelwenn /элвэн/ :triskell: (lanodan@queer.hacktivis.me)'s status on Monday, 21-Oct-2024 04:40:00 JST Haelwenn /элвэн/ :triskell:

   • miauz genyau
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   @mia @lucy After all file cabinets are more for storing bits of data (like a database) rather than well objects, which public libraries and repositories are much better at.
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     Haelwenn /элвэн/ :triskell: (lanodan@queer.hacktivis.me)'s status on Monday, 21-Oct-2024 05:05:28 JST Haelwenn /элвэн/ :triskell:

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     • LisPi
     @lispi314 @mia @lucy Hierarchical part of libraries is just a part of the structure, there's also a catalog that's synchronously maintained and usually contains some metadata (author/artist, publisher, year, genre, description/abstract, …) to allow searching.
     
     Which reminds me of how for me a modern filesystem shouldn't require periodically destroying your I/Os with updatedb.
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     LisPi (lispi314@udongein.xyz)'s status on Monday, 21-Oct-2024 05:05:29 JST LisPi

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     @lanodan @lucy @mia (Some) Libraries /logically/ use tags & such properly now, but physically they're still stuck in hierarchical mode.
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     Haelwenn /элвэн/ :triskell: (lanodan@queer.hacktivis.me)'s status on Monday, 21-Oct-2024 05:19:32 JST Haelwenn /элвэн/ :triskell:

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     • LisPi
     @lispi314 @mia @lucy
     Problem with updatedb is more… it's an old hack, sure you can try to make it a bit less annoying, but it's a hack.
     
     Filesystems already need to maintain a catalog of files with the inode table, just make it searchable and bam, updatedb is now entirely obsolete.
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     LisPi (lispi314@udongein.xyz)'s status on Monday, 21-Oct-2024 05:19:33 JST LisPi

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     • miauz genyau
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     @lanodan @lucy @mia The catalog aspects you mentioned are part of what I refered to by tags & logical organization, yes.
     
     > Which reminds me of how for me a modern filesystem shouldn't require periodically destroying your I/Os with updatedb.
     
     It could be pre-emptable and/or autoscheduled based on usage patterns and user policies.
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     Haelwenn /элвэн/ :triskell: (lanodan@queer.hacktivis.me)'s status on Monday, 21-Oct-2024 05:23:21 JST Haelwenn /элвэн/ :triskell:

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     • LisPi
     @lispi314 @lucy @mia And even for Unix it would also make a lot of sense, even outside of glob, PATH/LD_LIBRARY_PATH/… lookup for example is looking for a filename in a list of directories.