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: Olivier Destrebecq <email@hidden>
- Date: Wed, 27 Mar 2002 09:19:15 -0600
I agree with Chris that we need to be careful about when we send file to
other file system. But i would say that i prefer the way OS9 approached
it with file exchange. What would be nice is that the finder would be
aware of all that and would append those extension whenever a file is
moved from a HFS+ volume to a non HFS+ volume and that application that
move file do the same thing, so that the user don't have to get caught
in the middle of that.
my opinion, olivier
On Wednesday, March 27, 2002, at 12:52 AM, Christopher Nebel wrote:
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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