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From: Peter van Hardenberg <pvh@uvic.ca>
Subject: Re: Our introduction to Reiser-list
Date: Wed, 26 Oct 2005 23:49:01 -0700
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On October 26, 2005 10:02 am, John Gilmore wrote:
> Actually, when I had first read about file-as-directory, I had assumed that
> the content was either dynamically generated from the on-disk metadata
> (like uid, gid, etc) or stored as a "sideband" type stream in the file
> itself, like some of the MAC OS file systems (and others) do, or generated
> via a plugin connecting to user-space, for ID3 tags on mp3 files and other
> information which can easily be obtained from the file itself.

And I thought the whole idea was to unify the namespace and make things like 
ID3 tags obsolete...

-pvh

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Peter van Hardenberg (pvh@pvh.ca)
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