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Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Re: give us a hand with arch
From: |
Florian Weimer |
Subject: |
Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Re: give us a hand with arch |
Date: |
Sun, 28 Sep 2003 12:56:39 +0200 |
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Mutt/1.5.4i |
On Sun, Sep 28, 2003 at 12:12:49PM +0200, Andrea Arcangeli wrote:
> The proof this is metadata, is that if you had any second channel in the
> inode where you could store your metadata (some other projects asked for
> this feature over time), you would be using it already instead of
> polluting the file (IMHO at least ;). That way (with kernel support for
> transparently adding metadata to a file) the explicit mode also wouldn't
> require you to add-tag/delete-tag/move-tag, and tagline would be totally
> obsoleted.
Distributing files together with their extended attributes, a resource
fork or other ways to transparently store metadate is rather painful.
Ask any MacOS user. 8-/
You can either preserve the metadata, or you can make the file contents
accessible to traditional users. Both things at the same time don't
work.
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- Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Re: give us a hand with arch, Andrew Suffield, 2003/09/28
- Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Re: give us a hand with arch, Robert Anderson, 2003/09/28
- Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Re: give us a hand with arch, Ethan Benson, 2003/09/28
- Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Re: give us a hand with arch, Paul Hedderly, 2003/09/28
- Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Re: give us a hand with arch, Tom Lord, 2003/09/28
- Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Re: give us a hand with arch, David Brown, 2003/09/28
- Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Re: give us a hand with arch, Robert Collins, 2003/09/27
- Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Re: give us a hand with arch, Andrea Arcangeli, 2003/09/28
- Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Re: give us a hand with arch,
Florian Weimer <=
- Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Re: give us a hand with arch, Andrea Arcangeli, 2003/09/28
- Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Re: give us a hand with arch, Robin Farine, 2003/09/28
- Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Re: give us a hand with arch, Andrea Arcangeli, 2003/09/28
- Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Re: give us a hand with arch, David Brown, 2003/09/28
- Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Re: give us a hand with arch, Miles Bader, 2003/09/28
- Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Re: give us a hand with arch, Andrea Arcangeli, 2003/09/28
- Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Re: give us a hand with arch, David Brown, 2003/09/28
- Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Re: give us a hand with arch, Robert Anderson, 2003/09/28
- Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Re: give us a hand with arch, Bruce Stephens, 2003/09/28
- [Gnu-arch-users] Re: give us a hand with arch, Miles Bader, 2003/09/29