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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.bhp.com.au!mel.dit.csiro.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.hawaii.edu!ames!enews.sgi.com!decwrl!newsspool.doit.wisc.edu!koala.uwec.edu!daffy.anetsrvcs.uwrf.edu!cakerwood!not-for-mail From: bl03@uwrf.edu (BENJAMIN A LINDSTROM) Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.development.system,comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: Ideal filesystem Date: 12 Apr 1996 01:00:23 GMT Lines: 19 Message-ID: <4kk9v7$1nk@daffy.anetsrvcs.uwrf.edu> References: <4gejrb$ogj@floyd.sw.oz.au> <3140C968.20699696@netcom.com> <4ia7im$i4m@usenet.srv.cis.pitt.edu> <4if9gb$4kh@park.uvsc.edu> <4iibd2$ng@EARTH.baylor.edu> <4ir7tc$5uf@park.uvsc.edu> <31530CC6.266C03EF@ids2.idsonline.com> <4j0ccn$ftv@park.uvsc.edu> <4jthcs$3dn@nexus.it.com.au> <31631263.68EFE48C@netcom.com> <4kifre$q0l@nexus.it.com.au> NNTP-Posting-Host: cakerwood.acc.uwrf.edu X-Newsreader: TIN [UNIX 1.3 950726BETA PL0] Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.os.linux.development.system:21234 comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:17201 Simon Mackinlay (sjm@it.com.au) wrote: : [On cold.system, Adam Megacz (kalessin@netcom.com) bellowed unto all...] : > I have 3: : > : > 1) Elegance. If EA's are part of the filesystem, I can use all : > those fun preexisting apps (cat, tar, cp, mv, ls) to manipulate them. : > Not to mention stuff like xfilemanager. : : Ever seen (at the risk of earning flamage) WinNT's registry editor? : Again, I'm willing to learn from other people here - but if application : specific meta data is stored in a database, then it's easier to : manipulate them - whether querying, duplicating, or backing them up? : Side note: linuxconf mailing-list is working ona Linux registry type system. Maybe something to join and make sure it moves to the right direction if you want to see EA's implemented that way. =) Right now everything is in a structured directories for each user with their changes from the baseline group/site configuration.