- From: Paul Prescod <papresco@calum.csclub.uwaterloo.ca>
- Date: Fri, 25 Oct 1996 05:54:33 -0400
- To: "David Perrell" <davidp@earthlink.net>, "Scott E. Preece" <preece@predator.urbana.mcd.mot.com>
- Cc: <www-html@w3.org>
At 11:01 PM 10/24/96 -0700, David Perrell wrote: >All fine and dandy, except that to avoid the overhead of opening and >reading a file to find out the type, the type must be part of the file >system, not embedded in the file data. I know of no possible mechanism >for this in the FAT system besides the extension and a single attribute >byte. I believe the same is true of NTFS, though here you've got long >filenames and support for UNICODE characters. I do not believe so. I could be wrong, but I think that NTFS has an "extended attributes" feature like OS/2's HPFS. These can hold arbitrary (or up to 64k) of meta-data. >Can you imaging having to >open tens of thousands of files to construct a readable >folder/directory listing? The smart thing to do would be to cache those file types somewhere. Paul Prescod
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