Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: file as a directory | From | Peter Foldiak <> | Date | Tue, 10 May 2005 16:32:10 +0100 |
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On Tue, 2005-05-10 at 15:53, Hans Reiser wrote: > I agree with the below in that sometimes you want to see a collection of > stuff as one file, and sometimes you want to see it as a tree, and that > file format browsers can be integrated into file system browsers to look > seamless to users. > > A quibble: A name is just a means to select a file; he is completely > wrong to think that file browsers will eliminate filenames.
Yes, even if you think of the whole file system as a single "file", you need a way to select the bit you need, and you will use names for that (and whether you call that a filename, a file-part name or an object name doesn't really matter).
It is interesting that both he and I gave the example of a book and chapters, which is essentially a linear sequence, and the issue was just the selection of a part of that sequence. It would also be interesting to think about how you could map an arbitrary data structure more complicated than a linear sequence (an "object") to disk. This brings up issues of serialization and object databases....
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