> 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.