On Tuesday 28 November 2006 03:15, James Knott wrote: > There's much more to the OS/2 desktop than the menuing system. The > extended attributes supported a huge amount (64K bytes) of data about > each item. It included things like history, key words, comments etc., > all searchable
Extended atts are available in lots of file systems. Even newer suse releases use user_xattr in mount points (although I'm not sure what it buys us at this stage). Its just that nobody has come up with a good cross platform way to do it and there are few real world uses for it that are compelling enough for it to be used widely. -- _____________________________________ John Andersen
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