[Thunar-dev] Recent document support

[Brian J. Tarricone]

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE-----
Hash: SHA1

On 7/31/2006 5:14 PM, Benedikt Meurer wrote:
> Brian J. Tarricone wrote:
>>>>> Here's an discussion on tagged filesystems in linux:
>>>>> http://digg.com/linux_unix/WinFS-like_Storage_for_Linux
>>>> Well, it isn't usable as long as it depends on Linux (or Windows or any
>>>> other single-OS solution).
>> Perhaps not, but you have to start somewhere.  Can you think of an
>> implementation that works well and is scalable that can be implemented
>> entirely in user-space and doesn't require some special support or
>> feature from the OS?  If not, then maybe it needs to be abstracted into
>> a user-space and kernel-space portion, and we'll just have to find ways
>> to get support working for different OSes under that user-space
>> abstraction.  Granted, see how well that's worked with HAL so far... :-p
>>  (though in all fairness, I thought I heard that someone was working to
>> port HAL to FreeBSD).
> 
> Yes, it's being ported. But I fail to see "how well that's worked".

That was sarcasm.  As in, HAL has been around for quite some time now,
and yet Linux is still the only supported platform.  Hence the idea of
creating a user-level abstraction and filling in the kernel-mode bits
for various platforms hasn't worked (in this case, anyway).

> Just
> look at the stupid sysfs dependency that's being hardcoded in so many
> HAL-based applications...

I've never really looked too deeply into any HAL-based apps, so I have
no idea...

	-brian

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE-----
Version: GnuPG v1.4.2.2 (MingW32)

iD8DBQFEzqVS6XyW6VEeAnsRAoJfAKCYUhlW7TSbBMaqF+cMZiIejeM8mACfQQUN
7FrDOF36qgnVseWK0CybJiA=
=dKLo
-----END PGP SIGNATURE-----