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I loved BeOS/BeFS. I remember exporting ID3 tags from mp3 files into file system attributes and querying them to create playlists. Aside from Haiku, does anyon
by Crontab 5y ago
I loved BeOS/BeFS. I remember exporting ID3 tags from mp3 files into file system attributes and querying them to create playlists.
Aside from Haiku, does anyone know if any of the open-source Unix-like operating systems support arbitrary extended file attributes?
- boardwaalk 5y agoIt seems like most of them do[1] (inc. ext4, zfs, btrfs), but they’re fairly limited in size (but should be fine for media tags and such). [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Extended_file_attributes#Linux https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Extended_file_attributes#Linux
- jbverschoor 5y agoThey do.. but integration is almost nonexistent. All e-mail were separate eml files, with attributes for most of the important data. Same for contacts. In BeOS everything was more a file than in most *nix
- kitd 5y agoNot unix-y but OS/2 had something similar.
- rhizome 5y agoOf course a built-in would be nice, but I think one could get 99% of the way there just with a specialized scanner (that I don't know the name of) that kept its own database, like CTAGs or the old OSX Quicksilver (and probably Spotlight after it).