[openbeos] Re: Max number of files on BFS?

On Tue, 31 Aug 2004 17:26:59 +0200 (MEST), Ingo Weinhold
<bonefish@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > Is REISER4 more advanced than BFS or openbfs?  Not
> > only in features but in performance ?
> 
> I don't know about attribute indices and queries, but it definitely has a
> couple of nice features BFS doesn't have. And regarding performance for
> small files, it is significantly faster than BFS (at least v3 was).

I haven't gotten a chance to try it out yet, but from what I've read,
aside from being faster than BFS, resier4 gives the ability to access
a file's attributes by treating the file as if it were a directory. 
For example, you could read the attributes of "myfile.txt" by doing an
opendir() on "myfile.txt/", and each attribute shows up as if it were
a file, like "myfile.txt/size", "myfile.txt/author",
"myfile.txt/album", etc..  Since you can just use normal file access
calls to do attribute things, you can access the attributes through
basic shell scripts and such without having to resort to special
command-line tools.

I don't know about attribute indexes, though.


Scott

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