Re: Implementing Meta File information in Linux

Matthias Urlichs (smurf@noris.de)
22 Sep 1998 10:09:29 +0200

In dist.linux.kernel, article <905376497.27334@noris.de>,
"Theodore Y. Ts'o" <tytso@MIT.EDU> writes:
>
> Also consider other networking protocols besides NFS: AFS, FTP, HTTP,
> etc. Implementing metadata really is a non-trivial exercise. One

You're right (IMHO) except for HTTP -- there you already have a method for
handling resource forks, it's called "Content-Type: multipart/whatever".

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