> On May 3, 2015 at 3:09 PM Hendrik Boom <hendrik@???> wrote:
>
> On Sun, May 03, 2015 at 06:37:06PM +0200, Joerg Reisenweber wrote:
>
> > Even in your dream distro without any path, don't tell me you won't *have*
> > *to* come up with another concept for attaching meta info alternative to
> > path
> > names, and then you need to update that instead of "moving files"
>
> Taken to an extreme, that might even be a useful way of running a
> computer -- files are identified *only* by metadata. Has anyone ever
> tried something like this?

The BeOS file system used a database-centric approach that might qualify.
Here's a starting point if you are interested in learning more about it:

http://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2010/06/02/the-beos-filesystem/

Peter Olson