[openbeos] Re: FS attributes
- From: "Manuel Jesus Petit de Gabriel" <freston@xxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <openbeos@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Sun, 6 Jan 2002 17:25:15 -0800
> > So you could easily store tons. The trouble is that the BFS code for
> > accessing that data only lets you write the whole attribute at once -
> > meaning you need a buffer that big, no seeking allowed, no multiple
> > writes. That limits you to about 1GB of data.
>
> And that's no limit of BFS either, but of the accessing API.
It's BFS not the API.
> The attribute stuff in BNode even *has* a parameter "offset", but it's
> currently not used - I really wonder why.
That parameter gets thru to the FS driver. Is BFS who decides to ignore it.
The reason being some unresolved issues with indexed attributes.
manuel,
>
> Adios...
> Axel.
>
>
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