Any other OS's have cluster-folders like Win7?

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Dario D.

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Do any other OS's (like some Linux distro, maybe) have cluster-folders, like Win7's "Libraries"? (a folder that can show what's inside many)
 
I asked this very question in these forums a few months back IIRC. I never got a direct response I believe. I'm curious about this as well.
 
Nothing as easy or clean as in Windows 7 that I'm aware of, but you can get creative with some abuse of symbolic links via scripting/daemons to periodically dump those links to files into a library-ish folder.
 
Maybe Windows Vista's saved searches or OSX's smart folders? Their not exactly the same but I suppose they're similar.
 
Dario D. said:
Do any other OS's (like some Linux distro, maybe) have cluster-folders, like Win7's "Libraries"? (a folder that can show what's inside many)
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From my limited understanding of libraries, you could achieve similar/identical behavior in Linux using symlinks (searches with find would need -L as an option*) or in a previous windows version using shortcuts.


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Code: 
-L     Follow symbolic links.  When find examines or prints information
about files, the information used shall be taken from the  prop-
erties  of  the file to which the link points, not from the link
itself (unless it is a broken symbolic link or find is unable to
examine  the file to which the link points).  Use of this option
implies -noleaf.	If you later use the -P option,  -noleaf  will
still  be  in  effect.   If -L is in effect and find discovers a
symbolic link to a subdirectory during its search, the subdirec-
tory pointed to by the symbolic link will be searched.
 
From my limited understanding of libraries, you could achieve similar/identical behavior in Linux using symlinks (searches with find would need -L as an option*) or in a previous windows version using shortcuts.
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Nope. Symlinks/shortcuts don't provide the same level of file access and don't affect indexing, sharing, etc.
 
mhddfs to 'merge' some folders together into a new folder... u can still access them individuall or as the merged one.

Better than unionfs and whatnot.
 
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