Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (2243 mails)

[James Knott <james.knott@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Larry Stotler wrote:
> 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)
>   
Curious, that's one of the things I used to demonstrate, to show how
much better OS/2 was.  I guess my computer was imagining things.
BTW, while Wikipedia is a very useful source of info, it cannot be
considered authoritative.

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