Re: Implementing Meta File information in Linux
Brandon S. Allbery KF8NH (allbery@kf8nh.apk.net)
Wed, 02 Sep 1998 20:25:12 -0300
In message <19980903121207.E19274@caffeine.ix.net.nz>, Chris Wedgwood writes:
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| On Wed, Sep 02, 1998 at 08:07:41PM -0300, Brandon S. Allbery KF8NH wrote:
| > There's the right way, and then there's the Microsoft way. :-)
| > Ugly hackery to make up for deficiencies in their "OSes" (in this
| > case, NTFS's lousy performance) isn't exactly new tactics for them.
|
| OLE structure storage was done because it makes sense for them to do
| so. They have a consistent API for storing objects that many
| applications can (and do) use.
+--->8
The OLE API isn't the question; OLE implementation via magic forks in the
filesystem (essentially, the very thing we've been discussing re: Linux) is.
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brandon s. allbery [os/2][linux][solaris][japh] allbery@kf8nh.apk.net
system administrator [WAY too many hats] allbery@ece.cmu.edu
electrical and computer engineering KF8NH
carnegie mellon university
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