Re: storing images thumbnails as pseudo files?

[Hans Reiser <reiser@namesys.com>]

Pysiak Satriani wrote:

>Hello,
>
>suppose pseudo files, file-as-directory are on my r4 partition and are usuable.
>
>Does namesys' vision allow things like storing image thumbnails "inside the file
>itself" ?
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>Example using jpgtn (jpgtn creates thumbnails of jpg files)
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>// create 150px thumbnail
>$ jpgtn -s 150 -H test.jpg
>
>// move the thumbnail "into" the file
>$ mv tn_test test.jpg/thumbs/150px
>
>// the same but a 100px thumbnail
>$ jpgtn -s 100 -H test.jpg
>$ mv tn_test test.jpg/thumbs/100px
>
>Then I could write HTML code like this:
>
><a href="test.jpg"><img src="test.jpg/thumbs/150px" /></a>
>
>This idea came to me because of a project that has to create many thumbnails
>for many files. That requires to make a naming scheme, parse filenames and
>don't make one mistake. If I could do things this way it would be much
>easier and elegant to do.
>
>But that's just an idea from someone not really knowledgible enough in
>the area.
>
>Best regards,
>Maciej Soltysiak
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What you describe is the vision we are trying for.