Monday, January 11, 2010

Obsolete Hierarchical File Systems to be Replaced by Tagged, Search-based System Namespaces

Hierarchical File Systems are Dead
by Margo Seltzer and Nicholas Murphy, Harvard School of Engineering and Applied Sciences
"Abstract

For over forty years, we have assumed hierarchical file system namespaces. These namespaces were a rudimentary attempt at simple organization. As users have begun to interact with increasing amounts of data and are increasingly demanding search capability, such a simple hierarchical model has outlasted its usefulness. For this reason, we should design file systems whose organizations map to the ways we access and manipulate data now. We present a new file system architecture in which we replace the hierarchical namespace with a tagged, search-based one."
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