29 Nov
2006
29 Nov
'06
04:31
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. -- _____________________________________ John Andersen