[haiku-development] Re: Interesting feature of Snow Leopard

> mlist@xxxxxxxxx wrote:
> 
> > This is more or less what Haiku does for vector icons, isn't
> > it?
> 
> Actually we do that with attributes in general. I guess it could be 
> extended to do it with files too but I am not sure if we would really 
> gain much with it as files would have to be pretty small to fit in 
> what 
> today is the small data section, Compression would help here.
> 
> Also note that Dominic Giampaolo, original BFS programmer work for 
> Apple 
> now so it is more likely that this feature was inspired by BFS which, 
> in 
> a way, means that we did it first. ;)

Actually I think XFS already did allocate small files in the inode...
which would't surprise anyone since Dominic was at SGI first.

François.

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