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Bug 63642 - support for extended metadata sources
support for extended metadata sources
Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 62819
Product: gnome-vfs
Classification: Deprecated
Component: MIME and file/program mapping
unspecified
Other other
: Normal enhancement
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Assigned To: Seth Nickell
Seth Nickell
Depends on:
Blocks:
 
 
Reported: 2001-11-02 22:08 UTC by johnston
Modified: 2004-12-22 21:47 UTC
See Also:
GNOME target: ---
GNOME version: ---


Description johnston 2001-11-02 22:08:45 UTC 
Some filesystems, like bfs, support extended file meta-data - especially
file type metadata. It would be VERY nice, and would speed to adoption of
such filesystems, if GNOME could actually use the metadata stored in those
filesystems. Maybe some sort of plugin architecture for supporting
metadata? I know that there would need to be application support for this
too, but it would be a start if the gnome filesytem stuff would offer an
interface with which to manage this information.
Comment 1 Seth Nickell 2001-11-02 23:28:31 UTC 
I didn't know you could use BFS with linux. Or are you talking about a
different BFS than the Be filesystem BFS?

Metadata support is slated for 2.2.
Comment 2 johnston 2001-11-03 02:56:42 UTC 
http://cs.earlham.edu/~will/software/linux/kernel/BeFS.html

Even if BeFS under Linux does not support advanced metadata, support
for it in the gnome vfs could lead to development of metadata
databases (a-la mySQL or postgres) or even more advanced filesystems
like BeFS.
Comment 3 Christophe Fergeau 2003-05-23 20:26:55 UTC 

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 62819 ***