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For over forty years, we have assumed hierarchical file system namespaces.
These namespaces were a rudimen- tary attempt at simple organization. As users
have be- gun 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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