On Tue, 2007-10-23 at 15:00 -0700, alan wrote: > > The only thing I have seen about a filesystem that does not use a > directory structure is blue sky handwaving from Microsoft. (Also > known as a "database filesystem" in some accounts.) How it would work > is unclear. How you would find anything is even more unclear. (And > how such file systems would handle millions of files is pretty > unclear.) Hmm, well, MS seems to excel at making file systems that obscure where things are, and make it hard to find the file you want. e.g. Windows Vista, in what's presented as your home space, I make a new folder. Later on, I go back and visit that home space, and my folder doesn't show. I can find it in the tree, but the homespace doesn't want to show anything other than the folders that they created, until you hunt around. -- (This computer runs FC7, my others run FC4, FC5 & FC6, in case that's important to the thread.) Don't send private replies to my address, the mailbox is ignored. I read messages from the public lists.