Re: Implementing Meta File information in Linux

Alan Cox (alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk)
Wed, 9 Sep 1998 23:26:31 +0100 (BST)


> Also consider other networking protocols besides NFS: AFS, FTP, HTTP,
> etc. Implementing metadata really is a non-trivial exercise. One
> really has to wonder if it's worth it. (For example, for executables,
> we're probably much better off storing the icon in an ELF section....)

No, it belongs somewhere totally unrelated, icons are country dependant
data, which users should be able to override

Thats something people keep ignoring

Metadata in the mac resource fork sense isnt useful to a multiuser machine

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