Re: Why support volfs ?
Re: Why support volfs ?
- Subject: Re: Why support volfs ?
- From: Michael Smith <email@hidden>
- Date: Tue, 16 Jun 2009 15:00:50 -0700
On Jun 16, 2009, at 2:54 PM, shailesh jain wrote: I was reading Technote (http://devworld.apple.com/qa/qa2001/qa1113.html). I wanted to know what is the advantage of supporting volfs (looks like carbon file manager works around when you do not support volfs).
The advantages of lookup by persistent identifier should be obvious. This is a strong metaphor that enables applications on MacOS to retain the ability to locate filesystem objects despite their being moved or renamed by other applications.
Users tend to associate files with their content, not their name or place in the filesystem hierarchy; this allows applications to maintain a similar association.
= Mike
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