[haiku-development] Re: [GSoC proposal] IMAP FS - A few queries
- From: "Jonas Sundström" <jonas@xxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: "haiku-development@xxxxxxxxxxxxx" <haiku-development@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Sat, 09 Apr 2011 13:41:02 +0200
Anshul Singhle <xashck@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >You need imap-fs to support saving this attribute on the message,
> >so you need (semi-)write-support.
>
> According to the original plan, it already does. It will save mail
> as files with header information as attributes(for the purpose of
> querying mails by header info among other things).
There's a big difference between the filesystem populating itself
and something else populating it.
IMO, the imap-fs should be self-populating, but allow for some
filesystem operations which it translates to IMAP actions.
If the fs wouldn't populate itself (from the backend) and like the
cdda-fs allow only a subset of manipulations (relative to a full read/
write "real" filesystem like BFS) there would be no real point, IMO
to having an imap-fs in the first place.
/Jonas
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