[REBOL] Re: NTFS Stream Fun
From: bga:bug-br at: 5-Aug-2002 22:09
> Wow! This could be a good way to organise data files. Instead of
> having
> pcodes-vic.dat, pcodes-nsw.dat, etc have pcodes.dat:vic,
> pcodes.dat:nsw.
> Makes me wonder if this could be useful for DB type apps . . . db-
> file:key=3F
> Think I'll see if there are any documented limits / performance
> issues with
> this "feature" (sounds similar to resource forks under Mac).
It is not directly related to Rebol, but I would like to point out that
BFS, the native filesystem under BeOS does support metadata
(attributes) and the number of them per file is unlimited. Also the
size of each of them is unlimited. Attributes of integral types (int,
string) can be indexed automatically and transparently by the FS and
you can them search files in a way you would do in a database ("show me
all mpeg audio files that have Rock as the Genre, that has been
composed after 1990 and that I gave a Rating of 10 to it"), all that
without no need for any specific app (using just the system Find tool).
Not to mention queries are live and the query result is updated on the
fly if you add/remove files that match the criteria.
In other words, it completelly smokes NTFS out. :)
-Bruno
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