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

On Tue, 31 Aug 2004 19:43:09 +0200 CEST, François Revol <revol@xxxxxxx> wrote:
> 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 ?

True.  The reiserfs people seem to be chatting about this, too, but
they don't have such a concept yet.  It's a neat filesystem with a lot
of advantages, but it doesn't have all the features needed for, say, a
BFS replacement.  Maybe eventually.


Scott

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