Re: Annotated Filesystem

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Author: Jay
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To: plug-discuss
Subject: Re: Annotated Filesystem
On Thu, 17 Mar 2005, Craig Brooksby wrote:

> I'm using PLUG as a "smart people" forum here -- this is not totally
> Linux-centric. This is a question about good information management
> practices.
>
> I need to be able to *annotate* each file with comments like "this is
> the final version I submitted to Kurt, and re-submitted on 14 Mar 05"
> or "received from Bernadette for use in the foobar project. Destroy
> after 1 Jan 2006"



Since you mentioned that your question is not OS-specific... This
functionality is built into Mac OS X. Any file, folder, foo, whatever, can
have "Comments" associated with it. I am not sure if this is handled at
the filesystem (HFS+) level, or the OS level, but it is there.

--
~Jay


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