[openbeos] Re: question about dos filesystem and mime types
- From: "Axel Dörfler" <axeld@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: openbeos@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Fri, 01 Sep 2006 13:40:46 +0200 CEST
"Jérôme Duval" <korli@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> 2006/9/1, François Revol <revol@xxxxxxx>:
> > 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.
> What's the point of adding attribute support if the FS doesn't
> support them ?
It indeed doesn't make much sense for dosfs, but it would be great for
read-only file systems like ISO-9660. Since you can't change the on
disk data anymore, BeOS could make use of the attributes (that could be
put into some hidden file) as if it were BFS.
Of course, a similar feature could be added to dosfs, but it would be
much more complex and less of use at the same time because of other
systems messing with it (which is the only point in using FAT anyway).
Bye,
Axel.
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