Re: Carrying Attributes too Far

[Hubert Chan <hubert@uhoreg.ca>]

Retry...

>>>>> "Mike" == Mike Fedyk <mfedyk@matchmail.com> writes:

[...]

Mike> Please concentrate on cross platform file formats.

Nah, this is a filesystems list.  We don't care about file formats. ;-)

Actually, most of the important data will probably still remain in the
file itself, but Reiser4 will use a plugin to extract attributes.  If
the file format supports attributes.  If not, then when you transfer
the file, the recipient wouldn't have gotten the attributes anyways.

Mike> How is this going to be exported with nfs or samba?

My preference would be to make Reiser5 a distributed filesystem, and
make it work under Windows and Mac.  But that's just me.  Life will be
much nicer after Reiser[4|5|6] takes over the world.  ;-)

[...]

>> I'd also like to attach a BeOS style MIME type attribute to
>> everything,

Mike> So now you have to read an attribute just to find out that it's a
Mike> text file, once for each file.  Talk about performance...

Mike> Compare that to just reading the directory listing once.

You must have a magic ls.  My ls doesn't tell me which files are plain
text/binary data/images/audio/etc.

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