[Novalug] OS-X (re Linux)

James Ewing Cottrell III JECottrell3@Comcast.NET
Thu Oct 3 18:45:29 EDT 2013


Because they are OS Specific. And Unnecessary.

There is nothing that an RF can do that a related file can't do.

Dude, a File is an Ordered Collection of Bytes...Nothing Less, and 
Nothing More. OK, there IS some Metadata: Owner, Group, Links, Times, 
Permissions, etc, but that's in the Inode.

If you have a Web Page, the Images go in their own files...not in the 
Enclosing Page's RF. Except under MACs. Databases might have an Index 
File. Record Based files might have a Descriptor File containing the 
Layout of the Structures and possible a Record Allocation Map.

As for a Clean interface...Extended Attributes? That's what SELinux 
uses, and other things (cachefilesd?) also use them.

Then there is the lsattr/chattr bits on Linux.

It's Bad because it's Different...er...Non-Portable.

JIM

On 10/14/2012 2:14 PM, John Franklin wrote:
> Quite a list of assertions with nothing to back it up.
>
> For example, he says "resource forks are unclean." How are they unclean?  What would "clean" resource forks look like?  Are there examples of a similar features better designed in other systems? He may as well call then "not blue."
>
> jf




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