Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (2243 mails)

[Felix Miata <mrmazda@xxxxxx>]

On 2009/02/04 18:23 (GMT+0100) Philipp Thomas composed:

> * James Knott (james.knott@xxxxxxxxxx) [20090203 22:07]:

> > However, one thing it had was 64KB of extended attributes, which could
> > contain an incredible amount of searchable info about an object.

> That was a feature of the file system, not the desktop and are nothing 
> GNOME or KDE could implement on their own. POSIX extended attributes could
> possibly be used for similiar purposes, but then you would have to go and
> adapt every utility that somehow deals with files to also use them (which
> had to be done for all tools ported to OS/2).

> > There are many, many things that the WPS can do, far more than I can
> > mention in a brief message.

> Like I wrote, most of the features you mentioned have nothing to do with the
> WPS but rather of HPFS, the filesystem OS/2 uses. 

HPFS is what OS/2 used initially, but later IBM JFS was added, with the same
behavior.
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