[haiku-development] Re: Defining more standard attributes

Richie Nyhus wrote:

> Could the attributes be converted back to id3/filetags when the file
> is being copied to another filesystem ? The problem with this idea is
> when the file is being copied or played/used from another OS, plus on
> a whole it would slow down the file transfer speed.

About the slow down on file transfer; what is worst, slow copying or
the need to write inside the file each time an attribute is changed?

Updating the file early seems like the most reasonable approach,
though. Possibly with some kind of delay in case multiple attributes
are changed. You mentioned another OS reading files directly from the
BFS volume. Another issue is with files served to remote hosts; should
contained meta data be replaced on the fly in this case? The situation
is similar to copying to another filesystem, but in this case it's
easy to see that work will be repeated unnecessary.

-Truls

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