Using the Graph module would save some code. The only problem you'd face is in making vertex (aka node) names which need to be unique, and you could probably solve that by making them be the full absolute path, which in filesystem semantics is unique. Then you'd use vertex and/or edge attributes for the other things, e.g. vertex "type" which could be "file", "dir", "link".

You'd need to have logic to avoid "dir" having "contain" edges to "file"/"link"/"dir" vertices that didn't have the right names. An alternative is to just have inode numerical-ID type vertex-IDs, with a "name" attribute, and have the semantics even closer to a real filesystem.

It's not so much that Graph can solve all your problems, but it would allow you to simply ignore/take for granted some of them.

In reply to Re: How to represent the filesystem in DS? by etj
in thread How to represent the filesystem in DS? by ovedpo15

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