Re: Filesystem metadata support

Subject: Re: Filesystem metadata support

From: Jason Deraleau <email@hidden>

Date: Thu, 22 Mar 2007 10:54:45 -0400

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On Mar 13, 2007, at 4:35 PM, Jesse Peterson wrote:

Yes, you're right. Doing more research to plug into the wiki page I see that now. I had some misconceptions. The conceptual grouping of all the metadata associated with the getattrlist (and related) system calls is what I was calling "Finder info" (based off some other research and code I had looked into). Apple appears to call all of this "file system attributes."

I usually refer to this as "file system metadata," which basically includes the information you'd find in the catalog and attributes files of an HFS+ volume. I contrast that with "file metadata," which I take to mean things like EXIF and ID3 information. The term "metadata" can mean a lot of things. The prefix "meta" simply means self-referential. I find making use of other adjectives works well to describe the specific type of metadata to which I am referring.

Jason Deraleau (email@hidden)

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