Linked by Mo Mckinlay on Fri 31st Oct 2003 17:35 UTC
There's been much discussion over the past few months about the marriage of databases and filesystems - with Microsoft's Longhorn reportedly sporting the
Yukon integrated SQL Server, and GNOME Storage in heaty debate, if not development, there's been lots to talk about.
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"Most of the time the data is incorrect, or filled out wrong, or just plain redundant. What is wrong with putting the Band name, Album name, track number, and song title IN THE FILENAME!!! God, what a crazy idea."
What does it matter where the data is if it's incorrect? Better to store it in a way so that it's all mixed up and only human-readable (and not queriable)? What's so special about the filename? Would you want a whole wordocument in the filename? Why not?
"Most of the time the data is incorrect, or filled out wrong, or just plain redundant. What is wrong with putting the Band name, Album name, track number, and song title IN THE FILENAME!!! God, what a crazy idea."
What does it matter where the data is if it's incorrect? Better to store it in a way so that it's all mixed up and only human-readable (and not queriable)? What's so special about the filename? Would you want a whole wordocument in the filename? Why not?