On Thu, 2005-03-17 at 12:17 -0700, Jay wrote:
> 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.
----
sorta kinda
resource fork by Apple was a bad idea from the getgo and continues to be
a noose for Macintosh
resource forks are lost when using connections to other than afp/hfs and
that puts Mac users at a disadvantage in a network environment.
Maintaining, fixing, living with/without these forks is a support
headache and implementation even by Apple has been done at a confusing
level of maintaining backward compatibility with < OS X and leaving all
other non-HFS afpovertcp providers such as netatalk, WinNT, Win2K to
provide their own implementation.
I have a number of customers with Windows, Macintosh users on Linux
servers and I keep my fingers crossed and thank the stars above that it
doesn't break (and of course, samba & netatalk developers).
There are projects like netatalk that uses sleepycat db to store the
'meta' information of the Macintosh resource forks that could probably
be adapted for other OS's but it does seem that a bad idea is still a
bad idea.
I do believe that the next generation of filesystems (Longhorn or ???)
are reputedly going to be db systems themselves and that would likely
make it easy to store meta information parallel with the file content
and my guess is that there are probably some Linux projects
experimenting with that.
Craig
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