"Alexander G. M. Smith" wrote:
> Hubert Chan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote on 11 Jan 2002 20:44:44 -0500:
> > I think that's the point of trying to figure out a prefix for the
> > attributes -- so that attribute names in directories won't collide with
> > file names. So if you want a thumbnail for your directory foo, you just
> > do "cp icon.png foo/..thumbnail". (No special tools needed! Unifying
> > namespaces is great!)
>
> Why do we need to distinguish between attributes and files? We
> don't have to, or at least the file system doesn't have to (well,
> except for underlying indexability).
Well, traditional files have stat_data defined for them (these is the
traditional fixed metadata). If we make attributes files with stat_data, we'd
create unneccessary stat_data (like Hubert's
"foo.png/..creation-date/..creation-date/..creation-date"). So we should not
define stat_data for all attributes (but maybe for some attributes like
"foo.png/..thumbnail.png").
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