[haiku-commits] Re: haiku: hrev44715 - src/add-ons/kernel/file_systems/ntfs
- From: "Ingo Weinhold" <ingo_weinhold@xxxxxx>
- To: haiku-commits@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Sat, 27 Oct 2012 15:27:44 +0200
Axel DÃrfler wrote:
> On 10/23/2012 06:56 AM, Gerasim Troeglazov wrote:
> > 3a0a721: Added support for fake attributes.
>
> Maybe it would be a good idea to put that code into a generic module for
> file systems to use, or even better, into an overlay file system.
+1. The only annoyance of an overlay is that it has to be requested explicitly.
Maybe a file system flag or some other mechanism could be introduced to request
an overlay for the file system by default.
> However, I guess the preferred long-term solution would be to have that
> kind of functionality implemented in the userland API itself.
I can't think of a good solution how to do that. One still wants to globally
associate a file with its MIME type -- i.e. when tracker has identified a file,
other applications should see the associated MIME type as well -- but that
would require to store it in some server (the registrar most likely) and talk
to the server whenever the attributes of such a file are accessed. That's quite
some overhead.
On a related note: Archiving software should avoid archiving auto-generated
attributes.
CU, Ingo
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