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

[Scott van Looy]

Today Ian Malone did spake thusly:

> On 19/04/07, Scott van Looy <scott at ethosuk.org.uk> wrote:
>> On Apr 18 Les Mikesell did spake thusly:
>> 
>> > Matthew Miller wrote:
>> >> On Wed, Apr 18, 2007 at 05:21:00PM -0500, Mikkel L. Ellertson wrote:
>> >>>> And how does that work out for you when you keep your multimedia files
>> >>>> on exteral USB drives for portability among linux/mac/windows boxes?
>> >>> I guess it depends on the file system. If it is a FAT file system,
>> >>> then you are probably stuck with something like the present system.
>> >>> If it is a system that supports extended file attributes, then you
>> >>> only need to update the attributes for new/changed files. Now, if
>> >>> the idea turns out to be a practical one, then hopefully it will
>> >>> also be supported on the MAC. Two out of three aren't bad...
>> >>
>> >> This is exactly what Apple *used* to do.
>> >
>> > Until someone realized that you might use the same file with more than 
>> one
>> > application?
>> 
>> Until someone cunningly pointed out that no file extension and the icon
>> being kept in the resource fork was a TINY BIT OF A SECURITY HOLE.
>> 
>
> This isn't what's being proposed though.  Having the icon stored
> (effectively) in the file means a file can tell the user it's something
> different from what it's telling the OS.  If the metadata records
> mime-type then the OS tells the user what it thinks the file is
> and deals with it in the appropriate way.

I know, was just saying that that's possibly one of the reasons why Apple 
stopped ;)

I like the way palm does it. The whole filesystem is a database and it 
uses attributes like records in the database, meaning searching's 
lightning fast without a seperate DB being kept of everything. Evidently 
MS also like the way palm do it as that's the new FS that they're doing 
with WinFS (when they eventually finish it)

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