Bjartur Thorlacius dixit (2010-06-14, 23:24):
> On 6/14/10, Matthew Bauer <mjbauer95_AT_gmail.com> wrote:
> > I wish modern filesystems would allow some way of identifying a file type
> > besides in the filename. It seems like that would make things more straight
> > forward.
> Surely many modern filesystem support xattrs (extended file attributes)?
> One should be able to use them to store media types.
Besides, hfs has had this feature (along with the whole data/resource
fork schizophreny) for the last 15 or twenty years.
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