Why is Fedora a multimedia disaster? - Here is why.

[Gérard Milmeister]

On Wed, 2007-04-18 at 22:55 +0200, Gérard Milmeister wrote:

> Meta-data (using extended file attributes) would be faster, since it
> wouldn't involve opening the file and trying to guess the file type from
> the file content. If you have selinux enabled, each file access involves
> accessing extended file attributes.
See also:
http://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/CommonExtendedAttributes
The problem is, how to get the attribute to the file?
Applications creating the files must set it explicitly, and files
imported from outside must also get the attribute somehow.

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Gérard Milmeister
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