Today Ian Malone did spake thusly:
On 19/04/07, Scott van Looy <scott@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
On Apr 18 Les Mikesell did spake thusly:
> Matthew Miller wrote:
>> 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.
>
> Until someone realized that you might use the same file with more than
one
> application?
Until someone cunningly pointed out that no file extension and the icon
being kept in the resource fork was a TINY BIT OF A SECURITY HOLE.
This isn't what's being proposed though. Having the icon stored
(effectively) in the file means a file can tell the user it's something
different from what it's telling the OS. If the metadata records
mime-type then the OS tells the user what it thinks the file is
and deals with it in the appropriate way.
I know, was just saying that that's possibly one of the reasons why Apple
stopped ;)
I like the way palm does it. The whole filesystem is a database and it
uses attributes like records in the database, meaning searching's
lightning fast without a seperate DB being kept of everything. Evidently
MS also like the way palm do it as that's the new FS that they're doing
with WinFS (when they eventually finish it)
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