[openbeos] Re: question about dos filesystem and mime types
- From: "François Revol" <revol@xxxxxxx>
- To: openbeos@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Fri, 01 Sep 2006 13:29:37 +0200 CEST
> Yes, indeed, we could change Tracker to sniff the types - this would
> make sense for BFS volumes as well, but it could also slow down
> opening
> directories with many files considerably for volumes without
> attribute
> support if there is extra communication involved for every file. So
> this should be either cached at the file system level or somewhere
> else
> - if we go with the file system, the B_FS_HAS_MIME flag could
> indicate
> that the file system supports storing the type at least volatile (as
> long as the vnode stays in memory).
I still plan on adding attribute support to dosfs. Maybe rewrite it ?
(I could have a try at C++ in the kernel maybe :D)
FAT is old and unefficient but it is widely used, and mandatory for
things like mp3 players, so it makes sense to keep it around.
François.
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