FreeLists / openbeos / [openbeos] Re: kernel mime_table module

["François Revol" <revol@xxxxxxx>]

> "Mikael Jansson (mailing lists)" <lists@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > > After R1, I want to introduce file system layers, so that we can 
> > > just 
> > > plug in generic attribute support for all file systems that don't 
> > > support them natively. That should also simplify a couple of 
> > > things 
> > > :)
> > Like .DS_Store and such used in MacOS X?
> 
> How it's realized should be configurable. Personally, I'd prefer to 
> store those files locally by default, like Marco's cdda-fs does - 
> that 
> way, you won't clobber other file systems for no reason, and also 
> provide this service to read-only volumes.

The read-only volume support is questionnable though, are they really 
read-only then ?
Now, things like the EA DATA file on FAT must be handled by dosfs 
itself, not an upper layer unfortunately, since that very file is 
actually just a fake file to make sure the clusters won't be reclaimed 
by scandisk, but the dirents actually have a pointer to the cluster 
that contains the eas for its node.
So much for broken designs :)

François.