Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (2243 mails)

[Larry Stotler <larrystotler@xxxxxxxxx>]

On Thu, Feb 5, 2009 at 9:17 AM, Felix Miata <mrmazda@xxxxxx> wrote:
> 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.

Actually, according to the wikipedia article on the os/2 shadow
feature, it was a feature of the shell.  If you moved files while the
shell wasn't running, the shadow links were broken.  If you put it
back and then restarted the shell, the shadow would resume.  see:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shadow_(OS/2)
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