A Tagging System Integrated into a File System

Resumo

Filesystems are essential components in operating systems. They are responsible for managing and organizing data on storage devices. This organization tends to be hierarchical, which imposes some limitations. One of them is the absence of semantic search, finding a file based on its content or expressions that define it. Another limitation is the number of semantic markers, because even if the filename and its directory are suggestive, how to assign more semantic values to a file, as if its content covers several topics? Aiming to offer a solution to these situations, this paper presents a filesystem with tagging, allowing searching for semantic markers and associating multiple markers to files. A bibliographical research allowed the finding of related works, which were analyzed to design the developed tool. The filesystem was implemented on Linux, with the disk simulation being performed by a file. A command interpreter was also implemented, allowing interaction with the filesystem and managing the markers associated with the files. The results obtained demonstrate the feasibility of implementation and serve as a starting point for filesystems to adopt this practice.