Justin "Logic" Randall
Programmer, Networking
Ion Storm
214-953-0101 x205
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Steven Roberts [SMTP:strobert@ata-sd.com]
> Sent: Wednesday, October 07, 1998 4:59 PM
> To: Justin Randall
> Cc: Linux Kernel
> Subject: Re: need filetype field in directory entries
>
> Justin Randall wrote:
> > This is something an application can handle fine ala magic. If you
> are
> > referring to file browsing, then the browser, too, can examine the
> > first few bytes of a file to determine the file type. Not to knock
> the
> > idea of having that all information pre-indexed to expedite a
> > file-system GUI or other app, but it's not really necessary.
>
> Of course, the application can do the indexing itself. I did
> something
> similar for Win32 at a previous job. Management dumped the project
> even
> though it got great reviews and users loved it.
>
> Oh well, I am in progress on a ground-up re-implementation (that will
> be
> linux based as well).
>
> Of course the advantage of fs based is a common index (so every app
> wouldn't have to keep it's on database). Of course we could just make
> a
> standard library that was sort of like the locate database except more
> feature rich...
>
> That way we could have one database, but it would all be in user
> space,
> and not if the fs. And the type of info recorded could be modified
> without a breakage in filesystem format.
>
> Regards,
> Steven Roberts
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