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List:       kde-devel
Subject:    Re: [OT] Any plans to keep up with longhorn?
From:       Paul Sprakes <pauls () sprakes ! co ! uk>
Date:       2003-11-07 6:29:00
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On Thursday 06 November 2003 20:33, Kuba Ober wrote:
> On Monday 03 November 2003 08:05 am, Christophe Devriese wrote:
> > On Monday 03 November 2003 10:20, Maurizio Colucci wrote:
> > > Alle 04:33 AM, lunedì 03 novembre 2003, Christophe Devriese ha scritto:
> > > > Which winFS only would be able to do if you were to set the
> > > > properties on every file in your lan (I'm not going to ...).
> > >
> > > Well, it is surely better than what I must do now: put all the
> > > properties on the file name, which becomes incredibly long and doesn't
> > > fit on the screen.
> > >
> > > the-origin-of-the-species--author-charles-drawin--topic-science-biology
> > >-- ty pe-book--quality-very-good.pdf
>
> Actually, the new reiserfs is handling metadata natively, offers extensible
> tree-based indexing not only for filenames IIRC, its design offers
> inherent, expandable security models, and it's a single thing designed from
> ground-up to perform better, scale better and offer better and easier to
> access feature set than any other file system currently commercially
> available. Not like something crammed on top of a filesystem whose design
> is already outdated and not up to par with hardware it runs on.

Does this mean that the user can add any key/value pair to a file, and if so, 
how would it be portable accross OS's?


> That whole chat was just another piece of PR which is so happily bought w/o
> any intellectual digestive processes applied to it by most of the
> windows-bound developer community. Sad, but true.
>
> Cheers, Kuba Ober
>
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