&gt; in general I create one or two symlinks a year and I&#x27;m good. The hierarchy works fine.<p>Same here. I have a few things that tags would be nice for, but it&#x27;s infrequent enough that current filesystems are fine. Couple of examples<p>* Tagging the source [CD&#x2F;iTunes&#x2F;Amazon etc.] of my music - tags would be nice (and possibly doable as IDTags etc.) but &quot;&#x2F;music&#x2F;source&#x2F;artist&#x2F;album&quot; or &quot;&#x2F;music&#x2F;artist&#x2F;album [source]&quot; works fine<p>* Multiple paths to the same file - I have various media (movies, music, books, TV shows etc.) related to a single series in one folder. Those should also be in my main music etc. folders. Again tagging with the series name to make a virtual &quot;series&quot; folder would be nice, but symlinks solve that and it happens infrequently enough that it isn&#x27;t an issue.<p>Other than those edge cases, I&#x27;d say most of my data fits pretty well into a hierarchical structure.