Elliott Mitchell wrote on Wed, 31 Mar 2004 21:46:14 -0800 (PST): > Also I feel it should be on the file itself. ie for the file /tmp/fooblah > you should be able to access the file's metadata by open()ing/using > readdir() on /tmp/fooblah/metas or (/tmp/fooblah/..metas or whatever).
Sounds good to me. I just hope that directory operations are cheap in the file system. The alternative of just adding a ..meta. prefix to all attribute names would cut out one level of directories (less disk space usage, less lookup time to resolve a path, and no worry about the weirdness of attributes accidentally getting attached to the ..metas directory itself). /tmp/fooblah/..metas/mime-type /tmp/fooblah/..metas.mime-type Hmmm. Which is better? The weirdness factor worries me more than the performance reduction. - Alex
