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Early 2000s it was my daily driver. But man.. I used the filesystem like it was indented.. All my files had attributes. Unfortunately none of the metadata was s
by jbverschoor 3y ago
Early 2000s it was my daily driver. But man.. I used the filesystem like it was indented.. All my files had attributes. Unfortunately none of the metadata was supported on other platforms. Lots of wasted energy :) I loved BeOS
- oso2k 3y agoI used the filesystem like it was indented. What does `indented` mean here. Not familiar with this usage.
- Modified3019 3y agoAlmost certainly they meant to write “intended”.
- oso2k 3y agoHa! I feel like a dork now. After dinner haze.
- jbverschoor 3y agolol.. I meant that intended :). BeOS made heavy use of extended attributes. Everything was a file, and you could add attributes. With modern filesystems, this is also possible, but what made BeOS so special is that the attributes were a core feature of the OS. The file manager Tracker (Finder / Explorer) allowed you to select any attribute as a column name. The filesystem indexed all attributes, so it was blazing fast. For example, all emails were stored as regular files (like Maildir). They had attributes for things like: MAIL:from, MAIL:when, MAIL:subject etc. It's a different from using a separate indexing service like Spotlight.
- sillywalk 3y agoDid you ever use Scott Hacker's CD ripping script? It got the track info from cddb, added the attributes to both the mp3 files and the BFS extended attributes.
- jbverschoor 3y agoI don't remember if I was ripping CDs at that point to be honest. I know my mp3s were all tagged and also used attributes. I think the playback position was also an attribute.