On Wed, Apr 18, 2007 at 05:21:00PM -0500, Mikkel L. Ellertson wrote: > > And how does that work out for you when you keep your multimedia files > > on exteral USB drives for portability among linux/mac/windows boxes? > I guess it depends on the file system. If it is a FAT file system, > then you are probably stuck with something like the present system. > If it is a system that supports extended file attributes, then you > only need to update the attributes for new/changed files. Now, if > the idea turns out to be a practical one, then hopefully it will > also be supported on the MAC. Two out of three aren't bad... This is exactly what Apple *used* to do. -- Matthew Miller mattdm@xxxxxxxxxx <http://mattdm.org/> Boston University Linux ------> <http://linux.bu.edu/>
