Brian J. Tarricone wrote: >>>>Here's an discussion on tagged filesystems in linux: >>>>http://digg.com/linux_unix/WinFS-like_Storage_for_Linux >>> >>>Well, it isn't usable as long as it depends on Linux (or Windows or any >>>other single-OS solution). > > Perhaps not, but you have to start somewhere. Can you think of an > implementation that works well and is scalable that can be implemented > entirely in user-space and doesn't require some special support or > feature from the OS? If not, then maybe it needs to be abstracted into > a user-space and kernel-space portion, and we'll just have to find ways > to get support working for different OSes under that user-space > abstraction. Granted, see how well that's worked with HAL so far... :-p > (though in all fairness, I thought I heard that someone was working to > port HAL to FreeBSD).
Yes, it's being ported. But I fail to see "how well that's worked". Just look at the stupid sysfs dependency that's being hardcoded in so many HAL-based applications... > -brian Benedikt _______________________________________________ Thunar-dev mailing list [email protected] http://foo-projects.org/mailman/listinfo/thunar-dev
