Re: Why the DOS has many ntfs read and write driver,but the linux can't for a long time

[Olivier Galibert]

On Mon, Jan 09, 2006 at 05:53:35PM +0100, Oliver Neukum wrote:
> Does the Windows Explorer draw icons based only on name and metadata?

>From what I can see it does icons on non-executable entirely based on
the extension and nothing else on the first pass.  Executables are
looked inside for an icon (and there seems to be cache effects at
times, especially visible on the desktop).  Then for images a second
pass generates icons depending on the contents (with, once again, a
cache hidden somewhere).

Not a bad strategy, too.  Doing a file(1) on everything can only be
slow given the random disk accesses it generates.  Maybe a file(1) as
a _second_ pass would work.

  OG.
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