File System

From WebOS

A file system is a system and API to organise files and access them.

File Systems and Databases both support CRUD, etc. The lines seem blurry. Flat-tag categorisation etc certainly is allowed even on 'File Systems'. Perhaps this should be expanded to include all storage API. If such is documented here, that is fully allowed. Sorting and whatnot can take place as we go. If Zoho counts, surely so does Flickr (only storing one kind of file), and even perhaps del.icio.us. Discussion thread.

Operations could be as follows:

• Upload - Create
• Download - Read
• List - list elements
• Stat - get properties for a specific element
• Edit - Update (maybe same as upload/create?)
• Delete - Delete
• View - as in, in an online app or executing a script
• Copy - maybe just use download + upload ?
• Categories - tagging?
• Versioning