On Wed, Feb 27, 2008 at 1:08 AM, Joe Shaw <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Tue, Feb 26, 2008 at 1:33 PM, Nirbheek Chauhan > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Actually, I think he was referring to the fact that MacOSX's Spotlight > > and Vista's Instant Search were mentioned, but Beagle which predates > > both of them wasn't. > > > > "Apple Computer's Mac OS X operating system supports cataloguing and > > searching for file metadata through a feature known as Spotlight, as > > of version 10.4. Microsoft worked in the development of similar > > functionality with the Instant Search system in Windows Vista, as well > > as being present in SharePoint Server. Linux implements file metadata > > using extended file attributes." > > I read that section as Spotlight indexing the metadata itself stored > on the file system, which Beagle doesn't really do. Beagle does use > that file system metadata for its own bookkeeping, though.
/me reads up on what all Spotlight does Ah, I see, so Spotlight also indexes the filesystem metadata. I took the phrase "file metadata" from the wikipedia article in the wrong context -- content attributes rather than filesystem metadata. -- ~Nirbheek Chauhan _______________________________________________ Dashboard-hackers mailing list Dashboard-hackers@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/dashboard-hackers