The UNIX idea that the OS treated files as sequences of uninterpreted bytes was a brilliant technical simplification – so successful that the previously dominant approach essentially disappeared. Apple seems to want to revist the issue with its spotlight product. Maybe it is time time integrate a database view into the file system, now that databases have apparently standardized.
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