Re: [OFF] NeXT stupidity (was Re: Finding folder from its id)
Re: [OFF] NeXT stupidity (was Re: Finding folder from its id)
- Subject: Re: [OFF] NeXT stupidity (was Re: Finding folder from its id)
- From: Christopher Nebel <email@hidden>
- Date: Tue, 26 Mar 2002 22:52:26 -0800
On Saturday, March 23, 2002, at 03:45 PM, JollyRoger wrote:
On 3/23/2002 4:57 PM, "John W Baxter" <email@hidden> wrote:
Mac OS X Finder has to contend with the fact that there is no file
system file ID number on a UFS-formatted disk.
Sorry, but this irritates me to no end! Just how many of us are using
Mac OS X on UFS volumes? My guess would be a mere handful out of every
Mac user on the planet. ... Yet we have to be careful because that one
person in wherever might be using UFS. ...let's just get rid of these
nasty file ID's so we don't hurt the poor handful of hurt UFS users
feelings.
Unfortunately, it's not that simple. It's not just UFS that doesn't
support file IDs, it's every file system Mac OS X supports *except* HFS,
HFS+, and AFP (AppleShare). That means NFS, SMB, WebDAV, UDF, ISO 9660,
and so on. So in fact, most Mac OS X users are regularly exposed to
file systems that don't support file IDs, not to mention a bunch of
other spiffy HFS+ features.
The name of the game here is interoperability: you want your files to
remain intact no matter where you move them, whether it's from one
folder to another on your own disk or up to some departmental Linux file
server. While a lowest-common-denominator solution has obvious
down-sides, it has the advantage of complete fidelity.
--Chris Nebel
AppleScript Engineering
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