Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (4498 mails)

[Benjamin Rosenberg <red.kryptonite@xxxxxxxxx>]

On Nov 28, 2006, at 10:31 PM, John Andersen wrote:

> On Tuesday 28 November 2006 03:15, James Knott wrote:
> > There's much more to the OS/2 desktop than the menuing system.  The
> > extended attributes supported a huge amount (64K bytes) of data about
> > each item.  It included things like history, key words, comments  
> > etc.,
> > all searchable
>
> Extended atts are available in lots of file systems.
> Even newer suse releases use user_xattr in mount points
> (although I'm not sure what it buys us at this stage).
>
> Its just that nobody has come up with a good cross platform
> way to do it and there are few real world uses for it that are  
> compelling
> enough for it to be used widely.

Interesting. This sounds like Spotlight in OS X. But no one uses OS X  
in the real world. ;D
--
Envy, n: Wishing you'd been born with an unfair advantage instead of  
having to try and acquire one.


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