Previously Spam wrote: > Also, you are thinking _very_ narrowly now. There are thousands of > file formats. Implementing the support for meta-data/ streams/ > attributes in the kernel will make it possible to use this > generically for all files.
And how many different formats will be used for thumbnails? How many different names to indicate a summary for a document? Having the ability to add attributes standardizes a way to access that data, but not the format and naming of those attributes. It could be a step closer to a more flexible way of handling storage, but you have to realize that a lot (if not most) of the work still needs to be done in userspace. Wichert. -- Wichert Akkerman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> It is simple to make things. http://www.wiggy.net/ It is hard to make things simple.
