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arguably the only really compelling feature of BeOS (Spotlight) Be filesystem (BeFS) was terribly compelling, but only after you had lost your first draft of y
by watersb 5y ago
arguably the only really compelling feature of BeOS (Spotlight)
Be filesystem (BeFS) was terribly compelling, but only after you had lost your first draft of your first book to filesystem corruption.
Or so I'm told.
- wmf 5y agoBeFS was very compelling compared to FAT32 or HFS+ but it's no big deal compared to what we have today.
- int_19h 5y agoOne particular thing that was kinda nice was a separate MIME type attribute for all files, fully distinct from filename (and specifically extension), and used consistently throughout the OS to determine available actions etc. Although the real magic here is the latter - providing storage for an extra attribute in the filesystem is easy enough.