[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.
> 
The problem is BeOS doesn't have the same semantics on attributes than 
POSIX...
in BeOS each attribute has a type field, how would we map it when doing 
a cat foo.mp3/AUDIO:album ?

François.

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