File organization

Thursday November 3, 2005 - 11:55AM EDT

Why in the fuck doesn't Linux have more rigid structure to its filesystem. What I mean is that both OSX and Windows do a much better job of clarifying the mess that is Unix filesystem organization. The Unix method is unruly and no one really cares whether things are upper-case or lower case. And there should be a more semantical way to differentiate files and directories. You should be able to tell by their name. Same goes with types of files. The dos three character extension is a stroke of genius. Although you can get away with it in Windows it is still a great organizing tool. In Linux you can't tell by the name what kind of file it is. Pathetic. That in my opinion is a huge usability weakness in Linux. The unruly filesystem naming conventions. Even Windows is trying to eliminate it's filesystem disorganization with WinFS and relational database type storage. Linux is still stuck in lower-case upper-case purgatory. Larry Ellison at Oracle advocated the database approach to filesystems years ago anyway.