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I used the filesystem like it was indented. What does `indented` mean here. Not familiar with this usage.
by oso2k 3y ago
I 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.