In article , tonycooper214
@gmail.com says...

On Tue, 06 Aug 2013 22:21:49 -0400, nospam
wrote:

In article , Tony Cooper
wrote:

file systems are old school. they're eventually going away for nearly
all users. system administrators or developers might need to get at
individual files, but typical users do not.

Crap.

You couldn't find your way round my wife's iPad collection of of
photographs unless there was a file system you could follow.
Otherwise, god knows how many thousands of photographs all in one big
heap.

Mine are in albums on my iPad. Is that not a file system?

no. it's a higher level concept.

it's actually a database indexed by content, not a rigid file/folder
structure. one photo can be in multiple albums, something not possible
with a file system.

You have an odd idea of "not possible". I suppose what you've said
means something to some people, but I put the same image in several
folders by using "Copy to:".

Don't bother to explain. I don't give a rat's ass if it's a copy of
the same file or an index system accessing the same file. I guess
that makes me a hater of higher level concepts. Actually, I prefer a
copy since any changes affect the copy only.

FWIW, most Unix filesystems allow multiple links to the same file--when
you go to delete it it doesn't actually get deleted until the last link
goes, unless the superuser orders otherwise.

NTFS in Vista and later does as well. By default it's enabled only for
administrator accounts. The command is "mklink".

it's the same for music. you can search music by various things, such
as artist, album, genre or title. you can also create playlists with
whatever you want in them. as with photos, one song can be in multiple
playlists (or no playlists).

playlists can also be smart and automatically update themselves based
on rules you define, such as least recently played, rated 4 * or higher
or music from the '60s or some other ruleset. if you play a song, it's
automatically removed from least recently played and if you downrate it
to 3* or less, it will be removed from the 4* or better playlist, all
automatically.

Whoop-de-doo.